Vertical Strain at Siple Dome, Antarctica, 1999-2002

Abstract: At the Siple Dome area of Antarctica, much of the ice flow is vertical, which causes vertical ice deformation. To measure this phenomenon, the investigators used a method known as vertical strain rate. This project was a part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores (WAISCORES) project for de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Harrison, William, Morack, James, Waddington, Edwin D., Pettit, Erin, Zumberge, Mark, Elsberg, Daniel
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2007
Subjects:
Antarctic Glaciology
Siple Dome Ice Core
WAISCORES
Geodetic
Strain
Geology/Geophysics - Other
Glaciology
Antarctica
Glaciers/Ice Sheet
Cryosphere
Siple Dome
US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC)
Antarctic
Siple
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
West Antarctica
Antarc*
ice core
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/609214
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Summary:Abstract: At the Siple Dome area of Antarctica, much of the ice flow is vertical, which causes vertical ice deformation. To measure this phenomenon, the investigators used a method known as vertical strain rate. This project was a part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores (WAISCORES) project for deep ice coring in West Antarctica. WAISCORES is supported by the Office of Polar Programs (OPP), National Science Foundation (NSF). This data set consists of a table of long-term average strain rates measured between 1999 and 2002 at Siple Dome, Antarctica. The measurements were taken in hot-water boreholes by bridge gauges. Data are available in tab-delimited ASCII text format or PDF via FTP.

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