Challenges in predicting Greenland supraglacial lake drainages at the regional scale

<p>A leading hypothesis for the mechanism of fast supraglacial lake drainages is that transient extensional stresses briefly allow crevassing in otherwise compressional ice flow regimes. Lake water can then hydrofracture a crevasse to the base of the ice sheet, and river inputs can maintain t...

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Main Authors: K. Poinar, L. C. Andrews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2021-03-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1455/2021/tc-15-1455-2021.pdf