Antarctic ice sheet

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151Earth / Radioglaciology / Glacier / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice / Antarctic ice sheet / Ross Ice Shelf / Cryosphere / Physical geography / Glaciology / Water ice

track) completed over Dufek Massif as part of a cooperative program with the U.S. Geological Survey to investigate the regional extent and detailed magnetic and sub-ice structure of this large, layered igneous intrusion

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 03:41:29
152Glaciology / McMurdo Ice Shelf / McMurdo Sound / Antarctica / Mount Discovery / Antarctic ice sheet / Ice age / Ice shelf / Archibald McMurdo / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Scott Coast

The center frequency of the transmitter pulse, determined by the antenna length, was 2 megahertz. A bicycle wheel counter triggered waveform acquisition. The receiver consisted of a high-gain amplifier and a digital stor

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 20:45:14
153Ice sheet / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Glacier / Ice shelf / Antarctica / Pensacola Mountains / Ice field / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Orville Coast / Physical geography / Glaciology / Water ice

shale, coal, and petrified wood of Beacon Formation; many dike rocks in Beacon Formation; and Ferrar dolerite and McMurdo volcanic rocks. 4. Search for Antarctic meteorites. A joint U.S.—Japan search for meteorites was

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 03:38:06
154Water ice / Ice sheet dynamics / Glacier / Kamb Ice Stream / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Surge / MacAyeal Ice Stream / Antarctica / Whillans Ice Stream / Physical geography / Glaciology / Geography of Antarctica

References Interpretation is still in progress, but preliminary results indicate that the heating rate implies high shear stress, high enough to be important in the force balance of the ice stream as predicted. A quanti

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:39:53
155Geology / Climate history / Pleistocene / Ice ages / Petrology / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Current sea level rise / Ice sheet / Antarctica / Physical geography / Glaciology / Historical geology

High-resolution seismic survey of the Ross Sea continental shelf: Implications for ice-sheet retreat behavior STEPHANIE S. SHIPP and JOHN B. ANDERSON, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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156Earth / Iceberg / Polar ice packs / Southern Ocean / Amundsen Sea / Ice shelf / Ice sheet / Bellingshausen Sea / Antarctic Peninsula / Physical geography / Glaciology / Water ice

shoals and surrounded by close or fast ice, forming ice peninsulas or islands. In combination with frequent light easterly and northerly winds, these aggregations must contribute to a slow ocean circulation on the shelf

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157Geochronology / Ice core / Incremental dating / Climate history / Antarctica / Snow / Ice shelf / Antarctic ice sheet / Ross Ice Shelf / Physical geography / Glaciology / Water ice

sional deposition from supercooled fogs (Linkletter and Warburton, 1976), and (2) fresh snowfall in light wind conditions. These enhanced factors are greater than those seen in samples of snow and firn collected from sha

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158Climate history / Pleistocene / Ice sheets / MacAyeal Ice Stream / Heinrich event / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Greenland ice sheet / Antarctic ice sheet / Antarctica / Physical geography / Historical geology / Glaciology

Land-ice studies West antarctic ice sheet collapse: Chimera or clear danger? RICHARD B. ALLEY, Earth System Science Center and Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 18:56:48
159Extreme points of Earth / Ice core / Incremental dating / Water ice / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Transantarctic Mountains / Glacier / Antarctic ice sheet / Physical geography / Geochronology / Glaciology

There are two striking preliminary results. First, the nearsurface drops as the margin is approached (see figure). This very large effect, one apparently not observed before, is probably due to the ponding of cold air in

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 18:57:21
160West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice shelf / Ice sheet / Current sea level rise / Larsen Ice Shelf / Antarctic ice sheet / Antarctica / Ice core / Sea ice / Physical geography / Glaciology / Earth

THE WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET AND LONG TERM CLIMATE POLICY An Editorial Comment 1. Introduction Disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) has long served as a benchmark of dangerous climate change (Mercer, 196

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Language: English - Date: 2010-10-27 21:13:01
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