期刊
GEOMORPHOLOGY
卷 208, 期 -, 页码 190-199出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.12.004
关键词
Antarctic Ice Sheet; Fjord evolution; Glacial erosion; Cosmogenic nuclides; Shackleton Range; Passive margin
资金
- UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions (ALE)
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/E018254/1, NE/I025840/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/E018254/1, NE/I025840/1] Funding Source: UKRI
This paper explores the long-term evolution of a subglacial fjord landscape in the Shackleton Range, Antarctica. We propose that prolonged ice-sheet erosion across a passive continental margin caused troughs to deepen and lower the surrounding ice-sheet surface, leaving adjacent mountains exposed. Geomorphological evidence suggests a change in the direction of regional ice flow accompanied emergence. Simple calculations suggest that isostatic compensation caused by the deepening of bounding ice-stream troughs lowered the ice-sheet surface relative to the mountains by -800 m. Use of multiple cosmogenic isotopes ontedrock and erratics (26A1, loBe, 21Ne) provides evidence that overriding of the massif and the deepening of the adjacent troughs occurred earlier than the Quaternary. Perhaps this occurred in the mid-Miocene, as elsewhere in East Antarctica in the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the Lambert basin. The implication is that glacial erosion instigates feedback that can change icesheet thickness, extent, and direction of flow. Indeed, as the subglacial troughs evolve over millions of years, they increase topographic relief; and this changes the dynamics of the ice sheet. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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