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Record #86915:
Observations on a debris-covered polar glacier "Whisky glacier", James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica / T.J.H. Chinn, A. Dillon.
Title: | Observations on a debris-covered polar glacier "Whisky glacier", James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica / T.J.H. Chinn, A. Dillon. |
Author(s): | Chinn, T. J. H. Dillon, A. |
Date: | 1987. |
In: | Journal of Glaciology. (1987.), Vol. 33(115) (1987) |
Abstract: | Discusses structure of unofficially-named "Whisky" glacier wherein debris-laden beds reach surface to generate exceptionally large area of debris-covered ice. Ice structures and foliation suggest polythermal glacier, wet-based under debris-free zone and dry-based under debris-covered zone. Transition from wet- to dry-based conditions would be powerful mechanism for entraining debris into glacier and lifting it to surface. |
Notes: | Journal of Glaciology. Vol. 33(115) :300-310 (1987). |
Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.324.22 -- Glaciers: Whisky glacier. 551.324.83 -- Land ice, load. E5 -- Glaciology: land ice. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*726) -- Maritime Antarctic. (*726.82) -- James Ross Island group. |
SPRI record no.: | 86915 |
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