X Confused surface pattern SCALE OF MILES

• Main Author: G. Hattersley-smith
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Markham; Markham Bay; Ellesmere Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.487.4916; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic10-1-32.pdf

I N A paper on arctic ice islands (Koenig et al., 1952) it was pointed out chat surface rolls are characteristic features of both the Ellesmere Ice Shelf and the floating ice islands. From this it was inferred that the ice islands almost certainly originated by calving from the Ellesmere Ice Shelf. The shape of one large ice island did in fact prove its former contiguity with the ice shelf off the mouth of Markham Bay. Comparison of roll patterns of other ice islands with the roll pattern on the ice shelf may indicate the exact areas from which the ice islands have calved. It is therefore of interest to discuss the origin and evolution of these surface features. *This paper, which forms one chapter of an unpublished thesis, is published by per-