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A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

We report the discovery of a large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. From airborne radar surveys, we identify a 31-kilometer-wide, circular bedrock depression beneath up to a kilometer of ice. This depression has an elevated rim that cross-cuts tributary subglacial chann...

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Autores principales: Kjær, Kurt H., Larsen, Nicolaj K., Binder, Tobias, Bjørk, Anders A., Eisen, Olaf, Fahnestock, Mark A., Funder, Svend, Garde, Adam A., Haack, Henning, Helm, Veit, Houmark-Nielsen, Michael, Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Khan, Shfaqat A., Machguth, Horst, McDonald, Iain, Morlighem, Mathieu, Mouginot, Jérémie, Paden, John D., Waight, Tod E., Weikusat, Christian, Willerslev, Eske, MacGregor, Joseph A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6235527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30443592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar8173