Fracture Mechanical Analysis of Frost Wedging in Ice Shelves as Break-Up Mechanism

• Main Authors: Plate, Carolin, Humbert, Angelika, Gross, Dietmar, Müller, Ralf
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geophysical Research Abstracts 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32908/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32908/1/EGU2013-11822.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41447; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41447.d001

Disintegration events in ice shelves have been the subject of extensive investigations in the past years, however comprehensive explanations applicable to a majority of events are still missing. A popular assumption made by Scambos et al. (2000) [1] links disintegration events to a general thinning...