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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-239-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-239-2015
Research article
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09 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 09 Apr 2015

Origin and dynamic significance of longitudinal structures ("flow stripes") in the Antarctic Ice Sheet

N. F. Glasser, S. J. A. Jennings, M. J. Hambrey, and B. Hubbard

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We present a new map of the surface features of the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet. The map was compiled from satellite images. It shows many flow-parallel structures that we call "longitudinal ice-surface structures". Their location mirrors the location of fast-flowing glaciers and ice streams in the ice sheet. Their distribution indicates that the major ice-flow configuration of the ice sheet may have remained largely unchanged for the last few hundred years, and possibly even longer.