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MARC recordTravelling flexural waves in the Erebus Glacier tongue, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica / William H. Robinson, T.G. Haskell.
| Title: | Travelling flexural waves in the Erebus Glacier tongue, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica / William H. Robinson, T.G. Haskell. |
| Author(s): | Robinson, William H. Haskell, T. G. |
| Date: | 1992. |
| In: | Cold Regions Science and Technology. (1992.), Vol. 20(3) (1992) |
| Abstract: | Strain has been monitored since November 1984. Results imply that flexural-gravity waves are travelling from snout with phase speed of 70±10 m s⁻¹ and wavelength of 3.5±0.5 km. Suggests these are generated by surface gravity waves which, when resolved along tongue, produce waves travelling near minimum phase speed for flexural-gravity waves. Observations do not support standing wave theories for calving of glacier tongues, but suggest that calving of tongue on 1 March 1990 occurred when sea waves produced large lateral force on tongue while it was exposed to open water. |
| Notes: | Cold Regions Science and Technology. Vol. 20(3) :289-293 (1992). |
| Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.324.22 -- Glaciers. 539.42 -- Ice, tensile strength. 551.324.433 -- Land ice, ablation and calving: Erebus Glacier. E5 -- Glaciology: land ice. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*764) -- Ross Island. |
| SPRI record no.: | 116965 |
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