Sliding of temperate basal ice on a rough, hard bed: creep mechanisms, pressure melting, and implications for ice streaming
Basal ice motion is crucial to ice dynamics of ice sheets. The classic Weertman model for basal sliding over bedrock obstacles proposes that sliding velocity is controlled by pressure melting and/or ductile flow, whichever is the fastest; it further assumes that pressure melting is limited by heat f...
Published in: | The Cryosphere |
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Language: | English |
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2018
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1915-2016 https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/10/1915/2016/ |