Modelling the migration of ice stream margins
The Siple Coast ice streams are long, narrow bands of ice within the Antarctic ice sheet. They move significantly faster than the surrounding ice ridges, and therefore discharge significantly more ice. Observations suggest that their fast flow is due to sliding along a water-saturated bed, while the...
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University of British Columbia
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54268 |