Rheology of glacier ice.
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A new method for calculating the stress field in bounded ice shelves is used to compare strain rate and deviatoric stress on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The analysis shows that strain rate (per second) increases as the third power of deviatoric stress (in newtons per square meter), with a constant of proportionality equal to 2.3 x 10(-25).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 227 4692 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985