A Possible Second Large Subglacial Impact Crater in Northwest Greenland
Scientist May Have Discovered Massive Crater
Under Greenland Ice Sheet, Daily Beast, Feb. 2019
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scientist-may-have-discovered-massive-crater-under-greenland-ice-sheet
Photos: Craters Hidden Beneath the Greenland
Ice Sheet, Live Science, February 12, 2019
The open access paper is:
Joseph A. MacGregor, William F. Bottke, Jr., Mark
A. Fahnestock, Jeremy P. Harbeck, Kurt H. Kjær,
John D. Paden, David E. Stillman, and Michael
Studinger, 2019, A Possible Second Large
Subglacial Impact Crater in Northwest Greenland
First published: 11 February 2019
The paper states:
"Based on the dated radiostratigraphy of the Greenland
Ice Sheet, available for pre-2014 radar data only, the
ice overlying the structure is at least 79 ka old (Figures
1e–1h; MacGregor et al., 2015)."
Yours,
Paul H.
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