Thermal regime and sublimation rates of subsurface ice in Antarctica and on Mars under current and past environmental conditions: Insights from modeling and ground data

• Main Author: Liu, Lu
• Other Authors: Sletten, Ronald S
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Dry Valleys of Antarctica; Gale Crater; Ground Ice; Heat Diffusion Model; Vapor Diffusion Model; Geology; earth and space sciences; Beacon Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33412

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015 Subsurface ice is common in regions where mean annual temperatures are below the freezing point of water. Once present, this ice may persist for long periods of time even under unfavorable environmental conditions. Subsurface ice is fundamentally import...