Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier in East Antarctica
Abstract
Totten Glacier has the largest thinning rate in East Antarctica. A derivation of the sea floor bathymetry reveals entrances to the ice cavity beneath the glacier that could allow deep warm water to enter and enhance basal melting.
- Publication:
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Nature Geoscience
- Pub Date:
- April 2015
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2015NatGe...8..294G