AN INVESTIGATION OF A PERENNIALLY FROZEN LAKE

• Main Author: BARNES,DAVID F.
• Other Authors: AIR FORCE CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH LABS L G HANSCOM FIELD MASS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1960
• Subjects: *ICE; *LAKES; ABLATION; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; METEOROLOGY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; THICKNESS; TRAFFICABILITY; Frozen Lake; Greenland; Ice Lakes; Thule Air Base; glacier; Ice cap; Thule Air; Thule
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0255664; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0255664

Perennially-frozen Angiussaq Lake, Greenland was examined in 1957 to determine the strength of its midsummer ice cover and the causes of its perennially-frozen conditions. The lake, largest within a 100-mi radius of Thule Air Base, is formed by ice-cap damming of a valley 200 m deep, and has an elev...