Ice on the fast track

Charles R. Bentley ()
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Charles R. Bentley: the Geophysical and Polar Research Center, University of Wisconsin

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6688, 21-22

Abstract: Could the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, causing a disastrous global rise in sea level? To answer that, we must first understand the fast-flowing ice streams that stud its perimeter, carrying its ice to the sea. What controls their locations? Seismology and satellite observations give one possible answer: ice streams exist only over sedimentary basins, which supply material for a slippery clay-like bed.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/27776

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