AntArchitecture: constraining East Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics with radar-derived englacial stratigraphy and structure

Lead Research Organisation: Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Geog, Politics and Sociology

Abstract

The project will focus on tracing key horizons to obtain stratigraphic information using ICEGRAV and Polar GAP surveys (Fig.1). Using bed and ice characteristics, combined with the mapped englacial stratigraphy, processes which have formed and deformed the stratigraphy can be investigated. By using ice-depth models and/or ice cores taken at the South Pole and EPICA, which intersect radar data (Cavitte et al, 2016; Winter et al, 2019a), this project can reconstruct ice sheet history within the Weddell Sea Sector. This will constrain ISM parameters, including the influence of enhanced geothermal heat and basal shear and the impacts on sliding, internal deformation and consequential ice sheet stability.

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Studentship Projects

Project Reference Relationship Related To Start End Student Name
NE/S007512/1 30/09/2019 29/09/2028
2446566 Studentship NE/S007512/1 27/09/2020 28/04/2024 Rebecca Sanderson