West Glacier

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31Glacial landforms / Earth / Sediments / Petrology / Glacier / Meltwater / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Fjord / Sea level / Glaciology / Geology / Physical geography

pie rift basin to a marginal basin displaying the characteristics of the early stages of seafloor spreading (Jeffers, Anderson, and Lawyer in press). The scientific party of cruise VIII-86 included J.B. Anderson (chief s

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32Ice shelf / Ice rise / Ross Ice Shelf / Ice sheet / Sea ice / Ice / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Glacier / Polar ice packs / Glaciology / Physical geography / Water ice

ice is the only horizontal boundary observed in the six meters of sea ice. This dramatic change must be related to a sudden and significant change in growth conditions at the base of the shelf. The most probable cause wa

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33Antarctic ecozone / Tundra / Ice shelf / British Antarctic Territory / Antarctic ice sheet / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Glacier / British Antarctic Survey / Physical geography / Glaciology / Ice sheets

and members of other science parties on the Palmer for their assistance and cooperation. pinniped species (no Ross seals were seen in the area) were seen individually and grouped together in higher densities than we saw

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34Glacial landforms / Ice sheets / Geochronology / Bindschadler Ice Stream / Whillans Ice Stream / Glacier / Dye 3 / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Crevasse / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Glaciology

anisotropically distributed about a nonvertical axis. Most experiments, except the long-refraction shooting, were carried out along three separate azimuths. Good receiver coverage on the long-refraction profile made it p

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35Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Sediment / Ice age / Whillans Ice Stream / Ice sheet dynamics / Glacier / Ice sheet / Antarctic ice sheet / Physical geography / Glaciology / Geology

tilting against the flow. It is likewise hard to conceive of extrusion flow in the ice streams somehow causing the axial fold plane to tilt upstream after the fold formed with an initial vertical fold plane. Although the

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36Earth / 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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37Ice 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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38Water 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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39Extreme 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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40Earth / Glacier / Ablation zone / Snow / Glacier mass balance / Retreat of glaciers since / Glaciology / Physical geography / Water

Land surface temperature and land surface air temperature measurements on the ice cap of King George Island, West Antarctica Ulrike Falk1, Hernán Sala2, Damián López2, Claudio Matko2, Matthias Braun3 & Gunter Menz1 a

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