Persistent tracers of historic ice flow in glacial stratigraphy near Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica

Holschuh, Nicholas; Christianson, Knut; Conway, Howard; Jacobel, Robert W.; Welch, Brian C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2821-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2821-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2821-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

Research article

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04 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 04 Sep 2018

Persistent tracers of historic ice flow in glacial stratigraphy near Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica

Nicholas Holschuh, Knut Christianson, Howard Conway, Robert W. Jacobel, and Brian C. Welch

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RC1: 'Review of Holschuh et al. 2018', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Auther Response - Anonymous Referee #1', Nicholas Holschuh, 30 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Review of Persistent Tracers of Historic Ice Flow in Glacial Stratigraphy near Kamb Ice Stream', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Auther Response - Anonymous Referee #2', Nicholas Holschuh, 30 Jul 2018

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Short summary

Models of the Antarctic Sheet are tuned using observations of historic ice-sheet behavior, but we have few observations that tell us how inland ice behaved over the last few millennia. A 2 km tall volcano sitting under the ice sheet has left a record in the ice as it flows by, and that feature provides unique insight into the regional ice-flow history. It indicates that observed, rapid changes in West Antarctica flow dynamics have not affected the continental interior over the last 5700 years.