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MARC recordStructure and growth of Arctic ice shelves and ice islands / Martin O. Jeffries.
| Title: | Structure and growth of Arctic ice shelves and ice islands / Martin O. Jeffries. |
| Author(s): | Jeffries, Martin O. |
| Date: | 1987. |
| Publisher: | Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research |
| In: | National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research. Technical Memorandum. (1987.), Vol. 41 (1987) |
| Abstract: | Reviews work on subject since early 1950s. Of remaining seven ice shelves, Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is largest. Mentions incidence of calving since 1959; between 1983 and 1986, about 25 ice islands (tabular icebergs) were sighted along coastal margins of Queen Elizabeth Islands. Discussion, p. 49-51. |
| Notes: | National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research. Technical Memorandum. Vol. 41 :39-48 (1987). |
| Keywords: | 551.326.62 -- Icebergs, tabular. 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324.28 -- Ice shelves. E6 -- Glaciology: floating ice. (*60) -- Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters. |
| SPRI record no.: | 88485 |
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