Derrick Hasterok1, Matthew Gard1, Grant Cox1, Martin Hand1 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Radiogenic heat production is one of the greatest uncertainties in thermal models of the lithosphere. The difficulty in sensing radiogenic heat production using remote sensing techniques has...
- March 9, 2018
Derrick Hasterok1, Matthew Gard1, Samuel Jennings1 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Fifty years ago isostatic subsidence was proposed as a method to investigate the thermal state of the oceanic lithosphere. But it has always been more difficult to use isostatic...
- March 9, 2018
Martin Hand1, Jacqueline Halpin2, Derrick Hasterok1, Sandra McLaren3, Tom Raimondo4 1University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 2Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 3University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 4University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Current Antarctic geothermal...
- March 9, 2018
Alex Burton-Johnson1, Jacqueline Halpin2, Joanne Whittaker2, Felicity Graham2, Sally Watson2 1British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia We present findings recently published in GRL (Burton-Johnson et al., 2017) on the...
- March 9, 2018
Simon Cox1, Matilda Ballinger2, Jacqueline Halpin2, SCAR GeoMAP Action Group3 1GNS Science, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 3www.scar.org/ssg/geosciences/geomap, The SCAR GeoMap action group has been building a detailed digital geological dataset...
- March 9, 2018
Jacqueline Halpin1, Alex Burton-Johnson2, Sally Watson1, Joanne Whittaker1, Tobias Staal1, Anya Reading1, Alessandro Maritati1 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom The geothermal heat flux (GHF) to the base of...
- March 9, 2018
Matthew Gard1, Derrick Hasterok1 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia In this study, we develop a new model for heat flux and crustal temperatures for the Antarctic continent utilising new geophysical and geochemical constraints. Crustal heat flux directly influences ice sheet...
- March 9, 2018
Fausto Ferraccioli1, Jörg Ebbing2 1Nerc/British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany Geothermal heat flux is a key and yet poorly understood boundary condition that can affect past, present and future ice sheet dynamics via e.g. its...
- March 9, 2018
Folker Pappa1, Giovanni Macelloni3, Michael Kern2, Fausto Ferraccioli4, Jörg Ebbing1 1Kiel University, Germany, 2ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands, 3IFAC-CNR, Italy, 4British Antarctic Survey, , UK Different methods have been applied in recent years to quantify the thermal structure of Antarctica. Estimates are often...
- March 9, 2018
Ricarda Dziadek1, Fausto Ferraccioli2, Karsten Gohl1 1Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre For Polar And Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK The West Antarctic Rift System is one of the least understood rift systems on earth, but...
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