Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica
While large-scale observations of intensified fracture and rifting can be observed through remote-sensing observations, understanding crevasse initiation may best be achieved with small-scale observations in which crevasses can be directly observed. Here we investigate the kinematic drivers of creva...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:fbb285d6042f480b9ebc6d71de6d5923 2023-05-15T14:13:29+02:00 Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica Lynn Kaluzienski Peter Koons Ellyn Enderlin Gordon Hamilton Zoe Courville Steven Arcone 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.65 https://doaj.org/article/fbb285d6042f480b9ebc6d71de6d5923 EN eng Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143019000650/type/journal_article https://doaj.org/toc/0022-1430 https://doaj.org/toc/1727-5652 doi:10.1017/jog.2019.65 0022-1430 1727-5652 https://doaj.org/article/fbb285d6042f480b9ebc6d71de6d5923 Journal of Glaciology, Vol 65, Pp 989-999 (2019) Crevasses ice shelves ground-penetrating radar ice velocity Environmental sciences GE1-350 Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.65 2023-03-12T01:30:57Z While large-scale observations of intensified fracture and rifting can be observed through remote-sensing observations, understanding crevasse initiation may best be achieved with small-scale observations in which crevasses can be directly observed. Here we investigate the kinematic drivers of crevasse initiation in the McMurdo Shear Zone (MSZ), Antarctica. We delineated 420 crevasses from ~95 km of 400 MHz frequency ground-penetrating radar data and compared these data with kinematic outputs derived from remotely-sensed ice surface velocities to develop a statistical method to estimate crevasse initiation threshold strain rate values. We found the MSZ to be dominated by simple shear and that surface shear strain rates proved best for predicting crevasse features, with regions of higher shear strain rate more likely to have a greater number of crevasses. In the surveyed portion of our study region, values of shear strain rate and vorticity rate derived from the MEaSUREs2 velocity dataset range between 0.005–0.020 and 0.006–0.022 a−1, respectively, with crevasses located at ≥0.011 and ≥0.013 a−1. While threshold values from this study cannot be directly applied to other glacial environments, the method described here should allow for the study of shear margin evolution and assessment of localized damage and weakening processes in other locations where in situ data are available. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Ice Shelves Journal of Glaciology Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Journal of Glaciology 65 254 989 999 |
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While large-scale observations of intensified fracture and rifting can be observed through remote-sensing observations, understanding crevasse initiation may best be achieved with small-scale observations in which crevasses can be directly observed. Here we investigate the kinematic drivers of crevasse initiation in the McMurdo Shear Zone (MSZ), Antarctica. We delineated 420 crevasses from ~95 km of 400 MHz frequency ground-penetrating radar data and compared these data with kinematic outputs derived from remotely-sensed ice surface velocities to develop a statistical method to estimate crevasse initiation threshold strain rate values. We found the MSZ to be dominated by simple shear and that surface shear strain rates proved best for predicting crevasse features, with regions of higher shear strain rate more likely to have a greater number of crevasses. In the surveyed portion of our study region, values of shear strain rate and vorticity rate derived from the MEaSUREs2 velocity dataset range between 0.005–0.020 and 0.006–0.022 a−1, respectively, with crevasses located at ≥0.011 and ≥0.013 a−1. While threshold values from this study cannot be directly applied to other glacial environments, the method described here should allow for the study of shear margin evolution and assessment of localized damage and weakening processes in other locations where in situ data are available. |
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Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica |
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Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica |
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Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica |
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Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica |
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Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica |
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