Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2821-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2821-2018
Research article
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04 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2018

Persistent tracers of historic ice flow in glacial stratigraphy near Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica

Nicholas Holschuh, Knut Christianson, Howard Conway, Robert W. Jacobel, and Brian C. Welch

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Short summary
Models of the Antarctic Sheet are tuned using observations of historic ice-sheet behavior, but we have few observations that tell us how inland ice behaved over the last few millennia. A 2 km tall volcano sitting under the ice sheet has left a record in the ice as it flows by, and that feature provides unique insight into the regional ice-flow history. It indicates that observed, rapid changes in West Antarctica flow dynamics have not affected the continental interior over the last 5700 years.