Antarctic Ice Sheet
@anticesheet
Biggest and best ice sheet. Keepin’ things 😎. I have 🐧. Getting sloppy on my margins. Occasional collapses.
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14-12-2019 23:31:51
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9 hours today at Slusher Nunatak sampling glacial erratics, describing volcanic sequences, moss/lichens. Tom cut nearly all 11 samples, so I could focus on science. Hardly stopped-couldn't have done it without him-thanks for an awesome day again Tom - British Antarctic Survey 🐧 field guides rock!
THOR kit = British Antarctic Survey 🐧 percussion corer, which will be deployed through the hot water-drilled hole to attempt to recover sediment cores from beneath the ice shelf.
The full #MELT team have now arrived at the Grounding Zone Downstream drill site. We have also been joined by Justin Rowlatt and Jemma Cox who are on site to film📽️ our science and drilling operations British Antarctic Survey 🐧 International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration BBC News (UK)
No-one knows if the Hudson Mts volcanoes are still active - you might think so based on today's clouds! We sampled the youngest volcano here, an uneroded crater with lava bombs to find out when it last erupted?? Volcanoes can speed up glaciers, melting them from below! British Antarctic Survey 🐧
15 days to go to #NBP2002 - on a particularly clear day on #NBP1902 last year we had a great view of Mount Murphy, where @brent_goehring and a International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration GHC team have drilled two shallow boreholes to bedrock over the past few weeks.
Aww. Can’t wait to see you again! I bet Thwaites Glacier International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration feels the same. #ThwaitesGlacier #HowMuchHowFast #Antarctica
While International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration fieldwork is postponed for the coming Antarctic summer, how much ongoing ice loss is there from #ThwaitesGlacier and nearby glaciers in the Amundsen Sea, and how big is their contribution to sea-level rise? Thread, 1/23
David Glacier #Antarctica is the size of Britain. It flows into the famous Drygalski Ice Tongue discovered by Scott’s party in 1902. When did it form and why? What drives its behaviour? Read our discussion paper in The Cryosphere led by Dr Jamey Stutz tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2…
