Search Results - "Graham, Alastair C"
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Flow and retreat of the Late Quaternary Pine Island-Thwaites palaeo-ice stream, West Antarctica
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (01-09-2010)“…Multibeam swath bathymetry and sub‐bottom profiler data are used to establish constraints on the flow and retreat history of a major palaeo‐ice stream that…”
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Limited grounding-line advance onto the West Antarctic continental shelf in the easternmost Amundsen Sea Embayment during the last glacial period
Published in PloS one (25-07-2017)“…Precise knowledge about the extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; c. 26.5-19 cal. ka BP) is important in order to 1)…”
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An overview of realist evaluation for simulation-based education
Published in Advances in simulation (London) (2018)“…This article describes the key features of realist (realistic) evaluation and illustrates their application using, as an example, a simulation-based course for…”
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Revealing the former bed of Thwaites Glacier using sea-floor bathymetry: implications for warm-water routing and bed controls on ice flow and buttressing
Published in The cryosphere (09-09-2020)“…The geometry of the sea floor immediately beyond Antarctica's marine-terminating glaciers is a fundamental control on warm-water routing, but it also describes…”
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The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves
Published in Nature communications (10-12-2019)“…Reductions in the thickness and extent of Antarctic ice shelves are triggering increased discharge of marine-terminating glaciers. While the impacts of recent…”
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Diverse landscapes beneath Pine Island Glacier influence ice flow
Published in Nature communications (20-11-2017)“…The retreating Pine Island Glacier (PIG), West Antarctica, presently contributes ~5–10% of global sea-level rise. PIG’s retreat rate has increased in recent…”
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Size, shape and spatial arrangement of mega-scale glacial lineations from a large and diverse dataset
Published in Earth surface processes and landforms (15-09-2014)“…ABSTRACT Mega‐scale glacial lineations (MSGLs) are a characteristic landform on ice stream beds. Solving the puzzle of their formation is key to understanding…”
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New gravity-derived bathymetry for the Thwaites, Crosson, and Dotson ice shelves revealing two ice shelf populations
Published in The cryosphere (09-09-2020)“…Ice shelves play a critical role in the long-term stability of ice sheets through their buttressing effect. The underlying bathymetry and cavity thickness are…”
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Seabed corrugations beneath an Antarctic ice shelf revealed by autonomous underwater vehicle survey: Origin and implications for the history of Pine Island Glacier
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface (01-09-2013)“…Ice shelves are critical features in the debate about West Antarctic ice sheet change and sea level rise, both because they limit ice discharge and because…”
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Major advance of South Georgia glaciers during the Antarctic Cold Reversal following extensive sub-Antarctic glaciation
Published in Nature communications (17-03-2017)“…The history of glaciations on Southern Hemisphere sub-polar islands is unclear. Debate surrounds the extent and timing of the last glacial advance and…”
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The discovery of new deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities in the southern ocean and implications for biogeography
Published in PLoS biology (01-01-2012)“…Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Galápagos Rift in 1977, numerous vent sites and endemic faunal assemblages have been found…”
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Towards modelling of corrugation ridges at ice-sheet grounding lines
Published in The cryosphere (11-07-2023)“…Improvements in the resolution of sea-floor mapping techniques have revealed extremely regular, sub-metre-scale ridge landforms produced by the tidal flexure…”
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Hard rock landforms generate 130 km ice shelf channels through water focusing in basal corrugations
Published in Nature communications (01-11-2018)“…Satellite imagery reveals flowstripes on Foundation Ice Stream parallel to ice flow, and meandering features on the ice-shelf that cross-cut ice flow and are…”
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Subglacial hydrological control on flow of an Antarctic Peninsula palaeo-ice stream
Published in The cryosphere (05-06-2019)“…Basal hydrological systems play an important role in controlling the dynamic behaviour of ice streams. Data showing their morphology and relationship to…”
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Geospatial simulations of airborne ice-penetrating radar surveying reveal elevation under-measurement bias for ice-sheet bed topography
Published in Annals of glaciology (01-04-2020)“…Airborne radio-echo sounding (RES) surveys are widely used to measure ice-sheet bed topography. Measuring bed topography as accurately and widely as possible…”
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How dynamic are ice-stream beds?
Published in The cryosphere (04-05-2018)“…Projections of sea-level rise contributions from West Antarctica's dynamically thinning ice streams contain high uncertainty because some of the key processes…”
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Deglaciation and future stability of the Coats Land ice margin, Antarctica
Published in The cryosphere (20-07-2018)“…The East Antarctic Ice Sheet discharges into the Weddell Sea via the Coats Land ice margin. We have used geophysical data to determine the changing ice-sheet…”
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New constraints on the timing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in the eastern Amundsen Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum
Published in Global and planetary change (01-11-2014)“…Glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) account for >35% of the total discharge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and have thinned and…”
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Fauna of the Kemp Caldera and its upper bathyal hydrothermal vents (South Sandwich Arc, Antarctica)
Published in Royal Society open science (01-11-2019)“…Faunal assemblages at hydrothermal vents associated with island-arc volcanism are less well known than those at vents on mid-ocean ridges and back-arc…”
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Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era
Published in Nature geoscience (01-09-2022)“…Understanding the recent history of Thwaites Glacier, and the processes controlling its ongoing retreat, is key to projecting Antarctic contributions to future…”
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