Basement Ige, Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Canada

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Lyons, J.B., Savin, S.M., Tamburi, A.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1971
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Journal of Glaciology; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000013010; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000013010

Oxygen-isotope and chlorinity determinations, as well as petrographie observations, indicate that the basement we of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is largely composed of a unique brackish ice, which interdigitates with sea ice. Some iced firn occurs near the top of the Basement Ice, below an unconformity....