Rheology of glacier ice

A new method for calculating the stress field in bounded ice shelves is used to compare strain rate and deviatoric stress on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The analysis shows that strain rate (per second) increases as the third power of deviatoric stress (in newtons/sq meter), with a constant of pr...

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Main Authors: Jezek, K. C., Alley, R. B., Thomas, R. H.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1985
Subjects:
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Ross Ice Shelf
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Shelf
Ice Shelves
Online Access:http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19850045093
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Summary:A new method for calculating the stress field in bounded ice shelves is used to compare strain rate and deviatoric stress on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The analysis shows that strain rate (per second) increases as the third power of deviatoric stress (in newtons/sq meter), with a constant of proportionality equal to 2.3 x 10 to the -25th.

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