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Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3635-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3635-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
Research article
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23 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 23 Nov 2018

Marine ice sheet instability and ice shelf buttressing of the Minch Ice Stream, northwest Scotland

Niall Gandy, Lauren J. Gregoire, Jeremy C. Ely, Christopher D. Clark, David M. Hodgson, Victoria Lee, Tom Bradwell, and Ruza F. Ivanovic

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We use the deglaciation of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet as a valuable case to examine the processes of contemporary ice sheet change, using an ice sheet model to simulate the Minch Ice Stream. We find that ice shelves were a control on retreat and that the Minch Ice Stream was vulnerable to the same marine mechanisms which threaten the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This demonstrates the importance of marine processes when projecting the future of our contemporary ice sheets.
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