State of Equilibrium of the West Antarctic Inland Ice Sheet

Data from a traverse connecting Byrd Station, Antarctica, with the local ice divide allow calculation of the mean volume flux at points along the traverse. This is compared with current rates of surface accretion upstream from each point. Near the ice divide the ice sheet seems to be in equilibrium,...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Science
Main Author: Whillans, Ian M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1973
Subjects:
Antarctic
Byrd
Byrd Station
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.182.4111.476
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.182.4111.476

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