Subglacial landforms beneath Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica: detailed bed topography from ice-penetrating radar
King, Edward C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3793-3915; Pritchard, Hamish D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2936-1734; Smith, Andy M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8577-482X.
2016
Subglacial landforms beneath Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica: detailed bed topography from ice-penetrating radar.
Earth System Science Data, 8 (1).
151-158.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-151-2016
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Abstract/Summary
We present a digital elevation model of the bed of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica, derived from radio-echo sounding data. The data cover an 18 × 40 km area immediately upstream of the grounding line of the ice stream. This area is of particular interest because repeated seismic surveys have shown that rapid erosion and deposition of subglacial sediments has taken place. The bed topography shows a range of different subglacial landforms including mega-scale glacial lineations, drumlins and hummocks. This data set will form a baseline survey which, when compared to future surveys, should reveal how active subglacial landscapes change over time. These data also allow comparison between subglacial landforms in an active system with those observed in deglaciated areas in both polar regions. The data set comprises observed ice thickness data, an interpolated bed elevation grid, observed surface elevation data and a surface elevation grid. The data set is available at http://doi.org/269.
Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-151-2016 |
Programmes: | BAS Programmes > BAS Programmes 2015 > Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate |
ISSN: | 1866-3508 |
Date made live: | 12 Apr 2016 12:09 +0 (UTC) |
URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511860 |
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