Textural characteristics and impurity content of meteoric and marine ice in the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Eicken, H., Oerter, Hans, Miller, Heinrich, Graf, W., Kipfstuhl, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1994
• Subjects: Ronne Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; ice core; Ice Shelf; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/719/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.11302

The texture and physical properties of an ice core, recovered to 215 m depth from the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, have been studied with regard to formation and transformation of the ice. At a depth of 152.8 m, a sharp discontinuity marks the transition between meteoric ice accumulated from above a...