Project Blue: Ice Greenland Crevasse Reconnaissance, Summer 1954.

The Corps of Engineers program in northwestern Greenland during the summer of 1954 included a reconnaissance group whose purpose was to investigate a crevassed area on the Ice Cap, to provide information for initiating a research program in 1955. This report on the project, called 'Blue Ice...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Small,F. A.
Other Authors: SNOW ICE AND PERMAFROST RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT WILMETTE ILL
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1955
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
(*GLACIERS
CRACKS)
AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE
GREENLAND
PHOTOGRAPHS
BRIDGES
TRIANGULATION
PHOTOINTERPRETATION
MEASUREMENT
Greenland
Ice
Ice cap
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0716665
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0716665
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Summary:The Corps of Engineers program in northwestern Greenland during the summer of 1954 included a reconnaissance group whose purpose was to investigate a crevassed area on the Ice Cap, to provide information for initiating a research program in 1955. This report on the project, called 'Blue Ice' in the field, is intended, first, as an information source for outlining a research program and, second, as a record of observations in a crevassed area. (Author)

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