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Ice flow dynamics of the northwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere
Reconstructions of palaeo-ice-stream activity provide insight into the processes governing ice stream evolution over millennial timescales. The northwestern sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet experienced a period of rapid retreat driven by warming during
B. J. Stoker   +11 more
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Comparing numerical ice-sheet model output with radio-echo sounding measurements in the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctica

open access: yesAnnals of Glaciology, 2020
Numerical ice-sheet models are commonly matched to surface ice velocities from InSAR measurements by modifying basal drag, allowing the flow and form of the ice sheet to be simulated. Geophysical measurements of the bed are rarely used to examine if this
Hafeez Jeofry   +2 more
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Variations in hydraulic efficiency of the subglacial drainage landsystem control surging and streaming regimes of outlet glaciers

open access: yesJournal of Glaciology, 2023
Surging and streaming of glaciers are modulated by meltwater availability and pressure which controls mechanical coupling at their beds. Using laboratory-scale experimental modelling and palaeoglaciological mapping, we explore how subglacial drainage ...
Édouard Ravier   +3 more
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Ice Streams of the Laurentide Ice Sheet [PDF]

open access: yesGéographie physique et Quaternaire, 2006
Ice streams had a major influence on the configuration and the stability of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Their identification is crucial for an understanding of ice sheet behaviour and their importance is reflected by the recent increase in paleo-ice stream research.
Winsborrow, Monica C.M.   +2 more
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The role of subglacial hydrology in ice streams with elevated geothermal heat flux

open access: yesJournal of Glaciology, 2020
The spatial distribution of geothermal heat flux (GHF) under ice sheets is largely unknown. Nonetheless, it is an important boundary condition in ice-sheet models, and suggested to control part of the complex surface velocity patterns observed in some ...
Silje Smith-Johnsen   +2 more
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Formation of ribbed bedforms below shear margins and lobes of palaeo-ice streams [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2021
Conceptual ice stream land systems derived from geomorphological and sedimentological observations provide constraints on ice–meltwater–till–bedrock interactions on palaeo-ice stream beds. Within these land systems, the spatial distribution and formation
J. Vérité   +9 more
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Subglacial hydrology regulates oscillations in marine ice streams [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere
Marine ice stream dynamics are sensitive to conditions at the grounding line and basal shear stress. Variations in subglacial hydrology have been implicated in ice stream speed-up and shutdown.
M. Haseloff, I. J. Hewitt, R. F. Katz
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Marine ice sheet instability and ice shelf buttressing of the Minch Ice Stream, northwest Scotland [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2018
Uncertainties in future sea level projections are dominated by our limited understanding of the dynamical processes that control instabilities of marine ice sheets. The last deglaciation of the British–Irish Ice Sheet offers a valuable example to examine
N. Gandy   +7 more
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Of isbræ and ice streams [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Glaciology, 2003
AbstractFast-flowing ice streams and outlet glaciers provide the major avenues for ice flow from past and present ice sheets. These ice streams move faster than the surrounding ice sheet by a factor of 100 or more. Several mechanisms for fast ice-stream flow have been identified, leading to a spectrum of different ice-stream types.
Martin Truffer, Keith A. Echelmeyer
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Initial results from geophysical surveys and shallow coring of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2014
The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) is the sole interior Greenlandic ice stream. Fast flow initiates near the summit dome, and the ice stream terminates approximately 1000 km downstream in three large outlet glaciers that calve into the Greenland ...
P. Vallelonga   +22 more
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