Sentences with phrase «ice stream margin»
«Radar observations of a relict ice stream margin traversing Siple Dome, Antarctica,»» Antarctic Journal of the United States, XXX (5), (in press).
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Changes in the margin of ice stream C, Antarctica.
Present ice streams draining the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have characteristic concave surface profiles produced when slow interior sheet flow is downdrawn by fast stream flow near ice - sheet margins.
For the LIM experiment, we enlisted James Fastook to incorporate the marine instability mechanism published by Robert Thomas in 1977 to make grounded ice margins retreat when ice downdrawn by ice streams became thin enough to become afloat along the WAIS marine margins.
The margins usually slope more steeply, and most ice is discharged through fast - flowing ice streams or outlet glaciers, in some cases into the sea or into ice shelves floating on the sea.