Freeze-on limits bed strength beneath sliding glaciers
Across all glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets, the gravitational driving stress, and therefore the average basal shear stress falls in a narrow range that tops out around 1 bar. Here, the authors show that the mechanical resistance posed by heterogeneous infiltration of ice into sediments governs th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05716-1 |