Linda Balfoort

1 month ago | nature.com | Huw J. Horgan |Craig Stewart |Craig Stevens |Gavin Dunbar |Linda Balfoort |Britney Schmidt | +15 more

AbstractBeneath Antarctica’s ice sheets, a little-observed network of liquid water connects vast landscapes and contributes to the motion of the overriding ice. When this subglacial water reaches the ocean cavity beneath ice shelves, it mixes with seawater, amplifying melt and in places forming deep channels in the base of the ice.