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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2401-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2401-2018
Research article
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24 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 24 Jul 2018

Modelled fracture and calving on the Totten Ice Shelf

Sue Cook, Jan Åström, Thomas Zwinger, Benjamin Keith Galton-Fenzi, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum, and Richard Coleman

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The growth of fractures on Antarctic ice shelves is important because it controls the amount of ice lost as icebergs. We use a model constructed of multiple interconnected blocks to predict the locations where fractures will form on the Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. The results show that iceberg calving is controlled not only by fractures forming near the front of the ice shelf but also by fractures which formed many kilometres upstream.