Linking climate history and ice crystalline fabric evolution in polar ice sheets

• Main Author: Kennedy, Joseph Huston
• Other Authors: Pettit, Erin, Truffer, Martin, Bueler, Ed, Newman, David, Szuberla, Curt
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Fairbanks; Taylor Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6096

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015 An ice sheet consists of an unfathomable number of ice crystallites (grains) that typically have a preferred orientation of the crystalline lattices, termed fabric. At the surface of ice sheets, the microstructural processes that control the...