Stratigraphic Studies of the Snow Cover in Mizuho Plateau

• Main Author: O. Watanabe
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Snow and Ice Studies, National Research Center for Disaster Prevention 1978
• Subjects: Mizuho; Mizuho Plateau; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=863; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00000863/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=863&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

This paper is concerned with the stratigraphic investigations conducted by means of pits and snow cores on the snow cover of Mizuho Plateau in 1970-1971 and 1974-1975. The snow cover is basically composed of the unit layer (minimum structural units) and the layer boundaries caused by hiatus phenomen...