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Water blister geomorphology and subglacial drainage sediments: an example from the bed of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet in SW Finland

Journal of Glaciology, 2023
This study presents the first light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-based morphometric description of a water blister from a past ice-sheet bed caused by rapid supraglacial drainage.
Joni Mäkinen, Christine F. Dow, Elina Ahokangas, Antti Ojala, Kari Kajuutti, Juulia Kautto, Jukka-Pekka Palmu   +6 more
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Subglacial tills: a process model based on microsedimentological clues

Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2023
Abstract Subglacial sediments are subject to erosion, transport, and deposition in active, ephemeral, and spatially localized glacial environments. It is critical to determine how these mobilized sediments become immobilized in a time-transgressive process and can be frequently remobilized and reimmobilized.
John Menzies, Roger C. Paulen, Jürgen M. Reitner, Cunhai Gao, Tyler Hodder, Martin Ross   +5 more
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The "tipping" temperature within Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica and its implications for lake access. [PDF]

, 2011
We present results from new geophysical data allowing modelling of the water flow within Subglacial Lake Ellsworth (SLE), West Antarctica. Our simulations indicate that this lake has a novel temperature distribution due to significantly thinner ice than ...
Woodward, J., Mayer, Christoph, Woodward, John, Smith, A.M., Smith, Andrew, Ross, Neil, Thoma, M., Ross, N., K. Grosfeld, Grosfeld, Klaus, C. Mayer, N. Ross, M. Thoma, Smith, A. M., Mayer, C., Grosfeld, K., Smith, Andy, A. M. Smith, J. Woodward, Thoma, Malte   +19 more
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Warm-based basal sediment entrainment and far-field Pleistocene origin evidenced in central Transantarctic blue ice through stable isotopes and internal structures

Journal of Glaciology, 2018
Stable isotopes of water (δ18O and δ2H) were measured in the debris-laden ice underlying an Antarctic blue ice moraine, and in adjoining Law Glacier in the central Transantarctic Mountains.
JOSEPH A. GRALY, KATHY J. LICHT, CHRISTINE M. KASSAB, BROXTON W. BIRD, MICHAEL R. KAPLAN   +4 more
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Effects of basal topography and ice-sheet surface slope in a subglacial glaciofluvial deposition model

Journal of Glaciology, 2023
We use a mathematical model to investigate the effect of basal topography and ice surface slope on transport and deposition of sediment within a water-filled subglacial channel. In our model, three zones of different behaviour occur. In the zone furthest
David Stevens, Jeremy C. Ely, Stephen J. Livingstone, Chris D. Clark, Frances E. G. Butcher, Ian Hewitt   +5 more
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Thirteen years of subglacial lake activity in Antarctica from multi-mission satellite altimetry

Annals of Glaciology, 2018
The ability to detect the surface expression of moving water beneath the Antarctic ice sheet by satellite has revealed a dynamic basal environment, with implications for regional ice dynamics, grounding-line stability, and fluxes of freshwater and ...
Matthew R. Siegfried, Helen A. Fricker
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Subglacial Freshwater Drainage Increases Simulated Basal Melt of the Totten Ice Shelf

Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
Subglacial freshwater discharge from beneath Antarctic glaciers likely has a strong impact on ice shelf basal melting. However, the difficulty in directly observing subglacial flow highlights the importance of modeling these processes.
David E. Gwyther, Christine F. Dow, Stefan Jendersie, Noel Gourmelen, Benjamin K. Galton‐Fenzi   +4 more
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Modeling oscillations in connected glacial lakes

Journal of Glaciology, 2019
Mountain glaciers and ice sheets often host marginal and subglacial lakes that are hydraulically connected through subglacial drainage systems. These lakes exhibit complex dynamics that have been the subject of models for decades.
Aaron G. Stubblefield, Timothy T. Creyts, Jonathan Kingslake, Marc Spiegelman   +3 more
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Sediment behavior controls equilibrium width of subglacial channels

Journal of Glaciology, 2017
Flow-frictional resistance at the base of glaciers and ice sheets is strongly linked to subglacial water pressure. Understanding the physical mechanisms that govern meltwater fluxes in subglacial channels is hence critical for constraining variations in ...
ANDERS DAMSGAARD, JENNY SUCKALE, JAN A. PIOTROWSKI, MORGANE HOUSSAIS, MATTHEW R. SIEGFRIED, HELEN A. FRICKER   +5 more
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Ice stream subglacial access for ice-sheet history and fast ice flow: the BEAMISH Project on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica and initial results on basal conditions

Annals of Glaciology, 2021
Three holes were drilled to the bed of Rutford Ice Stream, through ice up to 2154 m thick, to investigate the basal processes and conditions associated with fast ice flow and the glacial history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
A. M. Smith, P. G. D. Anker, K. W. Nicholls, K. Makinson, T. Murray, S. Rios-Costas, A. M. Brisbourne, D. A. Hodgson, R. Schlegel, S. Anandakrishnan   +9 more
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