Wet subglacial bedforms of the NE Greenland Ice Stream shear margins

Author:

Riverman Kiya L.ORCID,Anandakrishnan Sridhar,Alley Richard B.ORCID,Holschuh NicholasORCID,Dow Christine F.ORCID,Muto Atsuhiro,Parizek Byron R.,Christianson Knut,Peters Leo E.

Abstract

AbstractWe describe elongate, wet, subglacial bedforms in the shear margins of the NE Greenland Ice Stream and place some constraints on their formation. Lateral shear margin moraines have been observed across the previously glaciated landscape, but little is known about the ice-flow conditions necessary to form these bedforms. Here we describe in situ sediment bedforms under the NE Greenland Ice Stream shear margins that are observed in active-source seismic and ground-penetrating radar surveys. We find bedforms in the shear margins that are ~500 m wide, ~50 m tall, and elongated nearly parallel to ice-flow, including what we believe to be the first subglacial observation of a shear margin moraine. Acoustic impedance analysis of the bedforms shows that they are composed of unconsolidated, deformable, water-saturated till. We use these geophysical observations to place constraints on the possible formation mechanism of these subglacial features.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Earth-Surface Processes

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