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https://hdl.handle.net/11681/5792| Title: | Isua, Greenland : glaciological investigations during 1973 |
| Authors: | Marcona Corporation Colbeck, Samuel C. Gow, A. J. (Anthony Jack) |
| Keywords: | Glaciology Glaciers Greenland Ice coring Ice cores Land ice Ice Glacial hydrology Ice crystal structure |
| Publisher: | Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) |
| Series/Report no.: | Research report (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)) ; 318. |
| Description: | Research Report Abstract: Two holes were drilled through the Greenland ice sheet during 1973 and temperature measurements were made in one hole drilled during 1972. These measurements show that the area of liquid water beneath the ice cap extends to ice depths as shallow as 100 m. The consequences of removing the frozen margin of glacial ice could be serious and more temperature measurements are needed to exactly locate the subglacial water. Petrographic studies of a few ice cores revealed a strongly oriented crystal fabric and an appreciable surface accumulation of superimposed ice. |
| Rights: | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/5792 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Report |
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