Ice shelf

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161Filchner-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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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:17:33
162Sedimentology / Physical oceanography / Sediments / Climate history / Continental shelf / Fisheries / Sea level / Hemipelagic / Sediment / Geology / Earth / Physical geography

glaciation, subtracting the eustatic sea level drop due to glaciation, and then performing a density calculation. Recent glacial reconstructions in Ross Sea predict greater grounded ice thicknesses than would be determin

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:21:02
163Geochronology / Ice core / Incremental dating / Water ice / Antarctica / Argon / Ice shelf / Particulates / Byrd Glacier / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Pollution

John Splettstoesser coordinated our logistical needs. Our field measurements were made by Charles Swithinbank, James Fastook, Tad Pfeffer, Mark Hyland, Jeff Lingham, Henry Brecher, and T. Hughes, with full cooperation of

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:17:49
164Ice shelf / Ice rise / Ross Ice Shelf / Ice sheet / Sea ice / Ice / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Glacier / Polar ice packs / Glaciology / Physical geography / Water ice

ice is the only horizontal boundary observed in the six meters of sea ice. This dramatic change must be related to a sudden and significant change in growth conditions at the base of the shelf. The most probable cause wa

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 03:39:25
165Glaciology / Ice shelf / Glacier / Ice rafting / Iceberg / Ice / Sea level / Greenland ice sheet / Water ice / Physical oceanography / Physical geography

Harbor, most icebergs under 2 m in diameter will likely melt within 24 hours if exposed to wave attack. Under these circumstances, most ice-rafted debris will be transported only short distances from calving tidewater gl

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:42:08
166Silicon dioxide / Biology / Diatom / Sedimentary rock / Ice shelf / Edward Bransfield / Chemistry / Water / Biogenic silica / Marine biology

Biogenic silica and organic carbon accumulation in modern Bransfield Strait sediments DAVID J . DEMASTER, THOMAS M. NELSON, CHARLES A. NITTROUER* and STEPHEN L. HARDEN Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 07:39:56
167Oceanic gyres / Earth / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Aquatic ecology / Weddell Gyre / Weddell Sea / Mixed layer / Primary production / Ocean gyre / Physical geography / Oceanography / Physical oceanography

region on the long hydrographic section is shown in figure 2. The structure of the temperature field is similar to that obtained in 1987 in this section with the exception of the top 100 meters or so where there is some

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 20:46:50
168Incremental dating / Water ice / Extreme points of Earth / Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory / Antarctica / Ross Ice Shelf / Dome C / Greenland Ice Sheet Project / Physical geography / Geochronology / Ice core

operated in the field in Antarctica. Since this equipment requires much smaller samples, it will be possible to increase the resolution with which the yearly snow layers can be examined by a factor of at least five over

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 05:47:08
169Antarctic ecozone / Tundra / Ice shelf / British Antarctic Territory / Antarctic ice sheet / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Glacier / British Antarctic Survey / Physical geography / Glaciology / Ice sheets

and members of other science parties on the Palmer for their assistance and cooperation. pinniped species (no Ross seals were seen in the area) were seen individually and grouped together in higher densities than we saw

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170Petrology / Sedimentology / Sedimentary rocks / Fisheries / Oceanography / Biogenic silica / McMurdo Sound / Continental shelf / Ice shelf / Geology / Physical geography / Water

The biomass of these sediments calculated from the extractable phospholipid and polar lipid ester-linked alkyl FAME showed levels equal to those in a highly productive Florida estuary. The antarctic sediments contained a

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 03:58:19
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