An ice stream is a region of fast-moving ice within an ice sheet. It is a type of glacier, a body of ice that moves under its own weight. They can move...
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Foundation Ice Stream (83°15′S 60°00′W / 83.250°S 60.000°W / -83.250; -60.000 (Foundation Ice Stream)) is a major ice stream in the Pensacola Mountains...
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Shimizu Ice Stream (85°11′S 124°0′W / 85.183°S 124.000°W / -85.183; -124.000) is an ice stream in the Horlick Mountains, draining west-northwest from...
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Stange Sound (redirect from Lidke Ice Stream)
1967-68. 73°30′S 76°30′W / 73.500°S 76.500°W / -73.500; -76.500. An ice stream about 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) long flowing north into Stange...
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Whillans Ice Stream (83°40′S 145°00′W / 83.667°S 145.000°W / -83.667; -145.000) is a glaciological feature of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, formerly...
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Alison Ice Stream is an ice stream about 8 nautical miles (15 km) long flowing into Eltanin Bay south of Wirth Peninsula, Antarctica. It was named by...
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Drewry Ice Stream (75°40′00″S 073°00′00″W / 75.66667°S 73.00000°W / -75.66667; -73.00000) is an ice stream in eastern Ellsworth Land that flows southwest...
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MacAyeal Ice Stream (80°S 143°W / 80°S 143°W / -80; -143), formerly Ice Stream E, is an ice stream in Antarctica flowing west to the juncture of Shirase...
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Glacier morphology (redirect from Ice dome)
centre of the stream, and are bounded by slow-moving ice on either side. Periods of greater ice stream flow result in more ice transfer from ice sheets to...
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Ferrigno Ice Stream (73°43′S 83°49′W / 73.717°S 83.817°W / -73.717; -83.817) is an ice Stream more than 15 nautical miles (28 km) long flowing into...
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seven ice streams that drain into the Ross Ice Shelf, the Bindschadler and Whillans ice streams are the most extensive. The seven ice streams discharge...
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Fox Ice Stream (73°28′S 85°29′W / 73.467°S 85.483°W / -73.467; -85.483) is an ice stream about 6 nautical miles (11 km) long flowing into Eltanin Bay...
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Lists of places in Antarctica (section Ice streams)
precipitation. However meltwater from the continent's ice features produce a number of rivers and streams. A list of these can be found at List of rivers of...
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Wiesnet Ice Stream is an ice stream about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long flowing into Venable Ice Shelf west of Allison Peninsula. Named by Advisory Committee...
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stream had actually strengthened. Finally, a 2021 study was able to reconstruct jet stream patterns over the past 1,250 years based on Greenland ice cores...
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Reedy Glacier (redirect from Horlick Ice Stream)
contribute little to the volume of ice flow. After entering the Ross Ice Shelf the Reedy Glacier becomes the Mercer Ice Stream. In the past it has been at least...
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Recovery Glacier (redirect from Blackwall Ice Stream)
This ice stream drains part of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet into the glacier. It is nearly 800 kilometres (500 mi) long and feeds the Filchner Ice Shelf...
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Rutford Ice Stream (79°00′S 81°00′W / 79.000°S 81.000°W / -79.000; -81.000) is a major Antarctic ice stream, about 290 kilometres (180 mi) long and...
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Bindschadler Ice Stream (81°00′S 142°00′W / 81.000°S 142.000°W / -81.000; -142.000) is an ice stream between Siple Dome and MacAyeal Ice Stream. It is one...
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The Echelmeyer Ice Stream (79°10′S 150°00′W / 79.167°S 150.000°W / -79.167; -150.000), formerly known as Ice Stream F, is a glaciological feature of...
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Möller Ice Stream (82°20′S 63°30′W / 82.333°S 63.500°W / -82.333; -63.500) is an Antarctic ice stream that drains an area of 66,000 square kilometres...
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The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern...
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lubricates the ice sheet so that it flows more rapidly. This process produces fast-flowing channels in the ice sheet — these are ice streams. In previous...
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Evans Ice Stream is a large ice stream draining from Ellsworth Land, between Cape Zumberge and Fowler Ice Rise, into the western part of the Ronne Ice Shelf...
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Mercer Ice Stream (84°50′S 145°00′W / 84.833°S 145.000°W / -84.833; -145.000), formerly Ice Stream A, flows west to Gould Coast to the south of Whillans...
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Carroll Inlet (redirect from Berg Ice Stream)
Island to the east of Stange Sound. The Berg Ice Stream flows north past FitzGerald Bluffs to enter the ice sheet in the south of the inlet. The Snow Nunataks...
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Kamb Ice Stream (82°15′S 145°00′W / 82.250°S 145.000°W / -82.250; -145.000), a glaciological feature of the Ross Ice Shelf of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet...
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Bailey Ice Stream (79°0′S 30°0′W / 79.000°S 30.000°W / -79.000; -30.000) is an ice stream on the northern margin of the Theron Mountains, flowing west-southwest...
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1.1 million years by the effects of erosion associated with repeated ice stream activity. The trench is not a subduction-related oceanic trench, where...
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