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Thermal convection and the origin of ice streams

Journal of Glaciology (2009) 55(191) 524-536
DOI: 10.3189/002214309788816722
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Abstract

Ice streams are a fact of ice-sheet dynamics, draining up to 90% of the ice. Thermal convection in ice below the density inversion is a speculation. An attempt is made to meld the two in such a way that the speculation becomes an explanation for the fact.

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Hughes, T. (2009). Thermal convection and the origin of ice streams. Journal of Glaciology, 55(191), 524–536. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214309788816722

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