Basal ice accretion and debris entrainment within the coastal ice margin, Law Dome, Antarctica

Basal ice stratigraphy in coastal ice cliffs at the Law Dome margin has revealed the basal accretion of clean and debris-bearing ice, marine congelation ice and granular marine ice inland of the margin. Co-isotopic analysis of δ¹⁸O and δD isotopes together with solute chemistry were applied to determine the modes of accretion and debris entrainment. The marine congelation ice and the granular marine ice were formed from the basal freezing of desalinated sea water and the episodic mixture of basal meltwater and sea water, respectively. Two different debris-entrainment mechanisms were identified. -from Author