Rheology of Glacier Ice
- 15 March 1985
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 227 (4692), 1335-1337
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.227.4692.1335
Abstract
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.Keywords
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