TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ANTARCTIC ICECAP AND ITS SUBGLACIAL BED

Exploration of the topography of the antarctic ice cap began 15 years ago during the Norwegian-British-Swedish expedition and the French polar expedition in 1950. During the last ten years the expeditions of the USSR, USA, Great Britain, Australia, France, Japan and Belgium carried out significant p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kapitsa,A. P.
Other Authors: DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D C
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1968
Subjects:
Geodesy
Seismology
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
(*ICE
ANTARCTIC REGIONS)
TERRAIN
GLACIERS
SURFACE PROPERTIES
THICKNESS
MEASUREMENT
GEODESICS
MAPPING
ALTITUDE
METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS
SEISMIC WAVES
AIRBORNE
MOUNTAINS
ECHO RANGING
MAPS
USSR
TRANSLATIONS
Antarctic
Sovetskaya
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Ice
Ice cap
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0667299
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0667299
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Summary:Exploration of the topography of the antarctic ice cap began 15 years ago during the Norwegian-British-Swedish expedition and the French polar expedition in 1950. During the last ten years the expeditions of the USSR, USA, Great Britain, Australia, France, Japan and Belgium carried out significant project in the Antarctic for obtaining data about the topography of the ice cap's surface and the thickness of the ice. By 1965 48 thousand kilometers of sections were made. Measurements of the ice cap's heights were taken over vast areas by way of airplane radio barometric surveys. (Author) Trans. of Sovetskaya Antarkticheskaya Ekspeditsiya Informatsionnyi Byulleten (USSR) n58 p5-12 1966.

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