Thermally controlled glacier surging

Canada, are two prominent examples of surging glaciers which are thought to be controlled by their thermal regime. Both glaciers have developed large bulges which have propagated forward as travelling wave fronts, and which are thought to divide relatively stagnant downstream cold-based ice from fas...

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Main Authors: A. C. Fowler, Tavi Murray, F. S. L. Ng
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.228.9054
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/%7Efowler/papers/2001.5.pdf