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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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Characterization of subglacial landscapes by a two-parameter roughness index [PDF]

, 2010
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Bingham, Robert George, Bo, Sun, Cui, Xiangbin, Siegert, Martin J., Tang, Xueyuan, Xin, Li, Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Xiangpei   +7 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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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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Models of ice melting and edifice growth during subglacial basaltic eruptions. [PDF]

, 2007
Models of the early stages of basaltic eruptions beneath temperate glaciers are presented that consider the evolving sizes of volcanic edifices emplaced within subglacial cavities.
Tuffen, Hugh
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Constraining subglacial processes from surface velocity observations using surrogate-based Bayesian inference [PDF]

Journal of Glaciology, 2021
AbstractBasal motion is the primary mechanism for ice flux in Greenland, yet a widely applicable model for predicting it remains elusive. This is due to the difficulty in both observing small-scale bed properties and predicting a time-varying water pressure on which basal motion putatively depends.
Douglas Brinkerhoff, Andy Aschwanden, Mark Fahnestock   +2 more
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Hydraulic and mechanical properties of glacial sediments beneath Unteraargletscher, Switzerland: implications for glacier basal motion [PDF]

, 2001
The force on a ‘ploughmeter’ and subglacial water pressure have been measured in the same borehole at Unteraargletscher, Switzerland, in order to investigate ice–sediment coupling and the motion at the base of a soft-bedded glacier.
Agassiz, Agassiz, Alley, Alley, Alley, Bear, Blake, Blankenship, Boulton, Brown, Campanella, Carslaw, Engelhardt, Engelhardt, Engelhardt, Fischer, Fischer, Fischer, Fischer, Fischer, Flotron, Freeze, Funk, Funk, Gudmundsson, Gudmundsson, Gudmundsson, Gudmundsson, Head, Hooke, Hugi, Hugi, Humphrey, Iken, Iken, Iverson, Iverson, Iverson, Iverson, Iverson, Janbu, Kamb, Knecht, Lambe, Malyshev, Mitchell, Murray, Murray, Porter, Porter, Press, Ruiter, Röthlisberger, Senneset, Skempton, Truffer, Tulaczyk, Weertman   +57 more
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Hydraulic impacts of glacier advance over a sediment bed [PDF]

, 2006
A sedimentary sequence of till overlying a gravel aquifer was instrumented with water-pressure transducers prior to a small, anticipated surge of the margin of the glacier Breiðamerkurjökull in Iceland.
Baker, Bogadóttir, Boulton, Boulton, Craig, Deresiewicz, Eissmann, Evans, Geoffrey Boulton, Gustafson, Rhén, Röthlisberger, Schirmer, Sergei Zatsepin, Van der Meer   +14 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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Meltwater Intrusions Reveal Mechanisms for Rapid Submarine Melt at a Tidewater Glacier [PDF]

, 2019
Submarine melting has been implicated as a driver of glacier retreat and sea level rise, but to date melting has been difficult to observe and quantify. As a result, melt rates have been estimated from parameterizations that are largely unconstrained by ...
Amundson, Jason M., Jackson, R. H., Kienholtz, C., Motyka, R. J., Nash, J. D., Pettit, E. C., Skyllingstad, E., Sutherland, D. A., Winters, D.   +8 more
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