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Fracture traces of the "Daggers" on Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf (2016-2026)
Cite as
Sharp, M., Pettit, E., Beiergrohslein, Z., Alley, K., Truffer, M., Muto, A., Luckman, A., Muto, Wild, C., and Sauret, G. (2026) "Fracture traces of the "Daggers" on Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf (2016-2026)" U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/None.
Abstract
This dataset includes a shapefiles of traces of a set of fractures extending from the pinning ridge on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf in West Antarctica (the "Daggers"). Fractures were manually-digitized as line features by two independent analysts (shapefiles corresponding to "MS" and "ZB", respectively) from monthly Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images between January 2016 and January 2026.

Attribute tables for each shapefile contain fields for: "Crevasse ID" and "Date".
Crevasse IDs are in order from East to West (Crevasse 1-5).
Dates refer to the date of the Sentinel-1 image from which the fracture was traced, recorded as as integers in the format 'yyyymmdd'
Creator(s):
Sharp, Meghan; Pettit, Erin; Beiergrohslein, Zoee; Alley, Karen; Truffer, Martin; Muto, Atsu; Luckman, Adrian; Wild, Christian; Sauret, Genevieve
Date Created:
2026-08-14
Repository:
USAP-DC (current)
Spatial Extent(s)
West: -105.82, East: -105.51, South: -75.03, North: -74.85
Temporal Extent(s)
Start: 2016-01-01 - End: 2025-12-31
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Version:
1
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MD5 Checksum: 80605c53e31f604388eafa0d3eda1e08 File Type: Text File; Binary File; ESRI Shape File

This dataset has been downloaded 1 time since March 2017 (based on unique date-IP combinations)