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Moffatt Eddies In Subglacial Mountain Valleys, Emily Martinez
Moffatt Eddies In Subglacial Mountain Valleys, Emily Martinez
ENGS 88 Honors Thesis (AB Students)
Currently, there is a global emphasis in finding the oldest ice in Antarctica, which will give the longest climate record contained within the ice. This is fundamental in the field of climate science because it will give scientists a proper baseline to compare it to sediment cores amongst other proxy records and work to determine a more accurate account of climate change. The most promising place to find the oldest ice is within the thick, slow-moving East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Within this ice sheet, there is a thick region of ice that sits on a mountain range known as the …