Before you take off to the arctic, just one more thing

• Main Author: Hofstede, Coen
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Delft, Mijnbouwkundige Vereeniging 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; Greenland; Indian; South Pole; Achilles Heel; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn; South pole
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31891/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41098

The two largest ice sheets of the Earth are the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Ice Sheet whereby the ice volume of Antarctica ten times larger is then that of Greenland. What are these ice sheets really made of, is it just ice on a continent or is there more to it? To check that out, I was dr...