Thermal controls on ice stream shear margins

Abstract Ice stream discharge responds to a balance between gravity, basal friction and lateral drag. Appreciable viscous heating occurs in shear margins between ice streams and adjacent slow-moving ice ridges, altering the temperature-dependent viscosity distribution that connects lateral drag to m...

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Published in:Journal of Glaciology
Main Authors: Hunter, Pierce, Meyer, Colin, Minchew, Brent, Haseloff, Marianne, Rempel, Alan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.118
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143020001185