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Groundwater dynamics beneath a marine ice sheet
Gabriel Cairns, Graham Benham, Ian Hewitt
Sedimentary basins beneath many Antarctic ice streams host substantial volumes of groundwater, which can be exchanged with a "shallow" subglacial hydrological system of till and ch…
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Modelling the evolution of an ice sheet's weathering crust
Tilly Woods, Ian J. Hewitt
The weathering crust is a layer of porous ice that can form at the surface of an ice sheet. It grows and decays in response changing weather and climate conditions, affecting the a…