Milne Glacier, Northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada: a Surging Glacier?
Abstract During the period 1966 to 1983 Milne Glacier advanced 4.25 km at a mean annual rate of 250 m a −1 . Since surges commonly occur over a two or three year period the maximum rate of advance could have been greater than 2 km a −1 . The glacier terminus has a number of features indicative of pa...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0022143000006043 2023-06-11T04:09:24+02:00 Milne Glacier, Northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada: a Surging Glacier? Jeffries, Martin O. 1984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000006043 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000006043 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) Journal of Glaciology volume 30, issue 105, page 251-253 ISSN 0022-1430 1727-5652 Earth-Surface Processes journal-article 1984 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000006043 2023-05-01T18:20:57Z Abstract During the period 1966 to 1983 Milne Glacier advanced 4.25 km at a mean annual rate of 250 m a −1 . Since surges commonly occur over a two or three year period the maximum rate of advance could have been greater than 2 km a −1 . The glacier terminus has a number of features indicative of past surge behaviour. Of these, at least three looped moraines suggest surges of the main valley glacier and tributary glaciers. As Milne Glacier is a cold glacier, surges may possibly be thermally regulated Accumulation rates on the ice caps of northern Ellesmere Island are low hence a critical condition in the “reservoir area” will be only slowly attained. As a consequence the periodicity of surges in Milne Glacier and other High Arctic glaciers is expected to be high. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Ellesmere Island glacier* Journal of Glaciology Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Arctic Canada Ellesmere Island Milne Glacier ENVELOPE(-79.997,-79.997,82.402,82.402) Journal of Glaciology 30 105 251 253 |
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Abstract During the period 1966 to 1983 Milne Glacier advanced 4.25 km at a mean annual rate of 250 m a −1 . Since surges commonly occur over a two or three year period the maximum rate of advance could have been greater than 2 km a −1 . The glacier terminus has a number of features indicative of past surge behaviour. Of these, at least three looped moraines suggest surges of the main valley glacier and tributary glaciers. As Milne Glacier is a cold glacier, surges may possibly be thermally regulated Accumulation rates on the ice caps of northern Ellesmere Island are low hence a critical condition in the “reservoir area” will be only slowly attained. As a consequence the periodicity of surges in Milne Glacier and other High Arctic glaciers is expected to be high. |
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Milne Glacier, Northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada: a Surging Glacier? |
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Milne Glacier, Northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada: a Surging Glacier? |
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Milne Glacier, Northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada: a Surging Glacier? |
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Milne Glacier, Northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada: a Surging Glacier? |
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Milne Glacier, Northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada: a Surging Glacier? |
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milne glacier, northern ellesmere island, n.w.t., canada: a surging glacier? |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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1984 |
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Arctic Ellesmere Island glacier* Journal of Glaciology |
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