Arctic Ice Island and Ice Shelf Studies: Part I

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Crary, A.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1958
• Subjects: Aerial photography; Cores; Crystals; Density; Dust; Firn; Fracturing; Glacial stratigraphy; Glaciers; Ice islands; Ice shelves; Lake ice; Melting; Minerals; Physical properties; Plants (Biology); Radiocarbon dating; Rocks; Salinity; Sea ice; Sea level; Seismic sounding; Temperature; Thermal properties; Thickness; Tides; Topography; Velocity; Arctic Ocean; Ellesmere Island; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island waters; Ward Hunt Island; Arctic; Hunt Island; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ellesmere Ice Shelf; Ice; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; permafrost
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66781

Summarizes some physical characteristics of ice island T-3 and its presumed source, the ice shelf off northern Ellesmere. Investigations since 1952 are described, results tabulated and graphed. The maximum ice thickness of the ice shelf was 60 m and that of T-3, 68 m (averaging 0.905 gm/cm³...