Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage

  • Stephen J. Livingstone,
  • Daniel J. Utting,
  • Alastair Ruffell,
  • Chris D. Clark,
  • Steven Pawley,
  • Nigel Atkinson,
  • Andrew C. Fowler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11767
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Our understanding of subglacial lake drainage events is limited by a lack of direct observations. Here, the authors use ground penetrating radar to identify a relict subglacial lake and infer drainage mechanisms based on geomorphological features.