Physical and Mechanical Properties and the Forming of the Snow-Firn Cover of Eastern Antarctica

• Main Author: Kartashov,S. N.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1965
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*GLACIERS; *ANTARCTIC REGIONS); (*SNOW; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES); ICE; HARDNESS; DENSITY; CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SUBLIMATION; TRAFFICABILITY; RECRYSTALLIZATION; LANDING FIELDS; REVIEWS; HANDBOOKS; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0715206; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0715206

Contents: A brief review on research on the snow-firn cover in areas of continental glaciation; Conditions for the forming of the snow-firn cover of Eastern Antarctica; Research on the physico-mechanical properties of snow and firn; The formation and physico-mechanical properties of the snow-firn cover in the Eastern Antarctic; The passability conditions of the snow-firn cover and certain other practical conclusions. Trans. of mono. Fiziko-Mekhanicheskie Svoistva i Protsessy Formirovaniya Snezhnofirnogo Pokrova Vostochnoi Antarktidii, Moscow, 1962 107p.