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dc.contributor.authorEidam, E. F.
dc.contributor.authorSutherland, D. A.
dc.contributor.authorDuncan, D.
dc.contributor.authorKienholz, Christian
dc.contributor.authorAmundson, Jason M.
dc.contributor.authorMotyka, R. J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-30T19:38:03Z
dc.date.available2020-11-30T19:38:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-25
dc.identifier.citationEidam, E. F., Sutherland, D. A., Duncan, D., Kienholz, C., Amundson, J. M., & Motyka, R. J. (2020). Morainal bank evolution and impact on terminus dynamics during a tidewater glacier stillstand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, e2019JF005359. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005359en_US
dc.identifier.issn2169-9011
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/11545
dc.description.abstractSedimentary processes are known to help facilitate tidewater glacier advance, but their role in modulating retreat is uncertain and poorly quantified. In this study we use repeated seafloor bathymetric surveys and satellite‐derived terminus positions from LeConte Glacier, Alaska, to evaluate the evolution of a morainal bank and related changes in terminus dynamics over a 17‐year period. The glacier experienced a rapid retreat between 1994 and 1999, before stabilizing at a constriction in the fjord. Since then, the glacier terminus has remained stabilized while constructing a morainal bank up to 140 m high in water depths of 240–260 m, with rates of sediment delivery of 3.3 Å~ 105 to 3.8 Å~ 105 m3 a−1. Based on repeated interannual surveys between 2016 and 2018, the moraine is a dynamic feature characterized by push ridges, evidence of active gravity flows, and bulldozing by the glacier at rates of up to meters per day. Beginning in 2016, the summertime terminus has become increasingly retracted, revealing a newly emerging basin potentially signaling the onset of renewed retreat. Between 2000 and 2016, the growing moraine reduced the exposed submarine area of the terminus by up to 22%, altered the geometry of the terminus during seasonal advances, and altered the terminus stress balance. These feedbacks for calving, melting, and ice flow likely represent mechanisms whereby moraine growth may delay glacier retreat, in a system where readvance is unlikely.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by NSF Arctic Natural Sciences Grants OPP—1503910, 1504191, 1504288, and 1504521. National Geographic CP4‐171R‐17 to E. Pettit and J. Nash helped support 2018 cruise logistics.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.subjecttidewater glaciersen_US
dc.subjectglacial moraineen_US
dc.subjectmorainal banken_US
dc.titleMorainal Bank Evolution and Impact on Terminus Dynamics During a Tidewater Glacier Stillstanden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surfaceen_US


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