SNOW COMPACTION IN ANTARCTICA-ROADS ON SNOW-COVERED SEA ICE.

• Main Author: Moser,Earl H. ,Jr.
• Other Authors: NAVAL CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB PORT HUENEME CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: (*ROADS; SNOW); (*SNOW; POLAR REGIONS); (*POLAR REGIONS; ROADS); TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; CONSTRUCTION; ICE; STORMS; Austral; McMurdo Sound; McMurdo Station; Williams Field; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0434118; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0434118

During the austral summer of Deep Freeze 61 the Laboratory provided technical guidance to a Navy snow-compaction team testing the practicability of compacted roads on snow-covered sea ice over McMurdo Sound. An experimental 22-footwide road was constructed between McMurdo Station and Williams field...