Glaciological Investigation Of Mertz Glacier

• Main Authors: East Antarctica Using, Anja Pötzsch, Benoit Legresy, Wilfried Korth, Reinhard Dietrich, Tu Dresden
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Mertz Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.20.6163; http://earth.esa.int/pub/ESA_DOC/gothenburg/500poetz.pdf

INTRODUCTION The Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica (Fig. 1) with a length of the floating part of about 90 kilometers is one of the largest ice tongues in Antarctica. One interesting feature of such a glacier is the grounding line which is the transition of grounded to floating ice. This transition i...