Ice sheet

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441Ice sheets / Ice shelf / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Antarctic ice sheet / Greenland ice sheet / Ice core / Ice calving / Iceberg / Physical geography / Water ice / Glaciology

Physical studies of firn and ice cores on the Siple Coast clearly are of interest in understanding processes occurring in and adjacent to ice streams and in interpreting geophysical data collected on the ground and from

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442Glaciology / Extreme points of Earth / Volcanology / Rift / Structural geology / Antarctica / Transantarctic Mountains / Subglacial eruption / Subglacial volcano / Geology / Physical geography / Plate tectonics

How important is late Cenozoic tectonic and volcanic activity in the west antarctic rift system on the dynamics of the west antarctic ice sheet? JOHN C. BEHRENDT, U.S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:40:33
443Maceral / Biology / Diatom / Total organic carbon / Micropaleontology / Geology / Botany / Coal / Water / Petrology

Cenozoic glacial ages. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Denton, G. H., Prentice, M., Kellogg, D. E., and Kellogg, T. B. In preparation. Origin and early history of the antarctic ice sheet: Evidence from the Dry V

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444Glacier / Ice sheet / Antarctica / Pensacola Mountains / Dufek Massif / Transantarctic Mountains / Davis Valley / Glacial erratic / Ice shelf / Physical geography / Glaciology / Ice age

types—slate, siltstone, sandstone, and dacite—but not on the coarse-grained intrusive rocks abundant in this area. These intrusive rocks appear to be so readily grussified that polish or striations, if originally pre

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445Incremental dating / Water ice / Extreme points of Earth / Paleoclimatology / Antarctica / Greenland Ice Sheet Project / Proxy / Physical geography / Geochronology / Ice core

the Allan Hills region to collect more than 100 meters of firn and ice core for later analysis. Tests of a solar-powered version of the auger were conducted at South Pole Station (figure 2). Solar panel performance was 2

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446Water ice / Fold / Bindschadler Ice Stream / Glacier / Whillans Ice Stream / Radioglaciology / Antarctica / Ice sheet dynamics / Ice sheet / Physical geography / Geology / Glaciology

We are presently engaged in fieldwork to study the relict margin area using surface-based ice-penetrating radar to examine the continuity of internal layers, and geodetic surveying to measure ice velocities and strain ra

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447Antarctic ecozone / Tundra / Glacial landforms / Antarctica / Ice core / Transantarctic Mountains / Micropaleontology / Greenland ice sheet / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Physical geography / Glaciology / Ice sheets

(Nanophanerophytic Montane Tundra) up near the treeline in this zone, where the climate is cold, wet, and windy, and soils are thin. Vegetation is confined to protected areas and thus covers less than 30 percent of the s

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448Ice sheet / Barclay Kamb / Meltwater / Till / Basal sliding / Whillans Ice Stream / Geology / Antarctica / Ice sheet dynamics / Glaciology / Physical geography / Glacier

wires at the same site. The different trends during this period are partially due to transient effects, but these effects tend to diminish with time. The difference may be primarily due to crevassing or other inhomogenei

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449Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Ice sheet / Ross Ice Shelf / Antarctic ice sheet / Ice shelf / Ice age / Antarctica / Iceberg / Glacier / Physical geography / Water ice / Glaciology

The Minnesota and Union Glaciers cut across the dominant structural trend of the mountains, while the Newcomer and Nimitz Glaciers follow it. We also sounded along six gravity profiles made earlier by U.S. scientists stu

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450Antarctica / Continents / Poles / Scott Polar Research Institute / Lambert Glacier / Antarctic ice sheet / Ice sheet / Landsat program / Ferrigno Glacier / Physical geography / Glaciology / Antarctic region

drilling platform (Kuivinen, Antarctic Journal, this issue). Equipment for ice core processing and analyses was installed in the science trench. Stauffer and Schwander (Antarctic Journal, this issue) describe the core pr

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