A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

Author:

Kjær Kurt H.1ORCID,Larsen Nicolaj K.12ORCID,Binder Tobias3ORCID,Bjørk Anders A.145ORCID,Eisen Olaf36ORCID,Fahnestock Mark A.7ORCID,Funder Svend1,Garde Adam A.8ORCID,Haack Henning910ORCID,Helm Veit3ORCID,Houmark-Nielsen Michael1,Kjeldsen Kristian K.1811ORCID,Khan Shfaqat A.12ORCID,Machguth Horst1314ORCID,McDonald Iain15ORCID,Morlighem Mathieu4ORCID,Mouginot Jérémie416ORCID,Paden John D.17ORCID,Waight Tod E.18ORCID,Weikusat Christian3ORCID,Willerslev Eske11920ORCID,MacGregor Joseph A.21ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2. Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

3. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.

4. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

5. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, USA.

6. Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

7. Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.

8. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark.

9. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, Bethel, ME, USA.

10. Geobiology and Minerals Section, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

11. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

12. DTU Space, National Space Institute, Department of Geodesy, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

13. Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

14. Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

15. School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, UK.

16. Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INP, Grenoble, France.

17. Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.

18. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources Management (Geology Section), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

19. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

20. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.

21. Cryospheric Sciences Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

Abstract

Researchers present the first unambiguous discovery of a 31-km-wide impact crater buried beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Villum Fonden

Danish National Research Foundation

Carlsbergfondet

Danish Council for Independent Research

Inge Lehmann Scholarship

Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters

Danish Council Research for Independent research

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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