S2 Pit and Strain Grid Measurements, Law Dome 1959-1960

• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; ICE MOTION; EARTH SCIENCE; CRYOSPHERE; SNOW/ICE; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Law Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/s2-pit-strain-1959-1960/701499; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/s2_pit_measurements; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

In the late 1950s, a snow pit was set up on Law Dome to measure the movement of ice below the surface. A large number of pegs were precisely placed in a ice tunnel wall, and regular measurements made to record the distortion over time. A separate grid of poles was placed on the surface, to track surface movement. The hard copy of this document has been archived in the Australian Antarctic Division Records Store.