Water Flow at the Base of a Surging Glacier

• Main Author: Brugman, Melinda Mary
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: California Institute of Technology 1987
• Subjects: water; methanol; floating; Alaska; basal; mannings; sediment; storage; Rhodamine; outburst; extraction; survey; roughness; Yakutat; glacier; tracking; base; model; galloping; turbidity; calibration; hydrology; dye; Tinopal; fluorescent; linked; pressure; PPB; instability; cavity; rapid; channels; WT; flow; exponential; Surge; Geology; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; cavity-conduit; floculation; Langmuir; glaciers
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7907/vshg-g674; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-07192006-093757

Water tracing experiments were successfully conducted over a distance of ten kilometers along the base of Variegated Glacier for the purpose of characterizing the water drainage system of the glacier in the surging as compared to the non-surging state. Three tracing experiments were conducted, and f...