Radio Soundings On Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory,Canada

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Goodman, R. H., Clarke, G. K. C., Jarvis, G. T, Collins, S. G., Robert, Metcalfe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1975
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Yukon; Canada; Weertman; Trapridge Glacier; glacier*; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000013411; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000013411

As part of a program to study surge-type glaciers, a radar-depth survey, using a frequency of 620 MHz, has been made of Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory. Soundings were taken at 26 locations on the glacier surface and a maximum ice thickness of 143 m was measured. A rapid change in surface slope i...