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Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1615-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1615-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
Research article
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04 May 2018
Research article |  | 04 May 2018

How dynamic are ice-stream beds?

Damon Davies, Robert G. Bingham, Edward C. King, Andrew M. Smith, Alex M. Brisbourne, Matteo Spagnolo, Alastair G. C. Graham, Anna E. Hogg, and David G. Vaughan

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This paper investigates the dynamics of ice stream beds using repeat geophysical surveys of the bed of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica; 60 km of the bed was surveyed, comprising the most extensive repeat ground-based geophysical surveys of an Antarctic ice stream; 90 % of the surveyed bed shows no significant change despite the glacier increasing in speed by up to 40 % over the last decade. This result suggests that ice stream beds are potentially more stable than previously suggested.
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