Ross Ice Shelf

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21Aquatic ecology / Ice shelf / Ross Ice Shelf / Ice sheet / Antarctic ice sheet / Continental shelf / Sea ice / Glaciology / Physical geography / Water

M.Sc. Topic in Polar Oceanography (open to PEP and German Physics master students) "Ice shelf - ocean interaction in Antarctica: Sensitivity of Ross Ice Shelf basal melting to cavity geometry and ambient hydrography" Sup

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Language: English - Date: 2015-05-06 03:33:08
22Oceanography / Ice sheets / British Oceanographic Data Centre / Marine biology / Science and technology in the United Kingdom / Ice shelf / Antarctic ice sheet / Bathymetry / Fimbul Ice Shelf / Physical geography / Earth / Glaciology

Autosub Under Ice The Autosub autonomous underwater vehicle being launched from RRS James Clark Ross (Photo: Ken Collins, NOCS)

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Language: English - Date: 2006-12-05 10:24:08
23British Antarctic Territory / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / West Antarctica / Antarctica / Ross Ice Shelf / Ice shelf / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice sheet / Ellsworth Mountains / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Glaciology

effects when the results of the stable oxygen isotopic measurements become available. R. Alley has studied the 50-meter core obtained by the Polar Ice Coring Office. He has found grain size and firn-structural variations

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:17:27
24Physical geography / Geology of Australia / Petroleum / Reflection seismology / Passive margin / Continental shelf / Sedimentary rock / Paleozoic / Geology of the Falkland Islands / Geology / Plate tectonics / Historical geology

across the shelf (see Dunbar, Dehn, and Leventer, Antarctic this issue). This distribution was first noted by Truesdale and Kellogg (1969), who attributed it to less extensive summer sea ice cover in the western Ross Sea

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 04:12:07
25Physical oceanography / Antarctic region / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Oceanography / Weddell Gyre / Ross Ice Shelf / McMurdo Sound / Ice shelf / Ross Sea / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Oceanic gyres

rafted debris in the shallower core is evident from the radiographs. Because the supply of ice-rafted debris to the seabed should be independent of bottom topography, the variation in abundance of ice-rafted debris betwe

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 05:02:23
26Filchner-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
27Sedimentology / 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
28Ice 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
29Incremental 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
30Antarctic 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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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:20:38
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