TY - JOUR
T1 - Polythermal glaciers
AU - Glasser, Neil F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Polythermal glaciers are those glaciers that have a mixed basal thermal regime. They have warm ice (at 0°C) in their interior where the ice is thick and is warmed to the pressure melt point, and cold ice (below 0°C) around their margins where ice is thin and on their surface. They have a restricted geographical range and are particularly common in the Arctic, suggesting that there are climatic controls on their distribution. Proglacial and englacial thrusting, folding, and deformation of the ice are common during glacier flow, as is the deformation of permafrost in proglacial areas.
AB - Polythermal glaciers are those glaciers that have a mixed basal thermal regime. They have warm ice (at 0°C) in their interior where the ice is thick and is warmed to the pressure melt point, and cold ice (below 0°C) around their margins where ice is thin and on their surface. They have a restricted geographical range and are particularly common in the Arctic, suggesting that there are climatic controls on their distribution. Proglacial and englacial thrusting, folding, and deformation of the ice are common during glacier flow, as is the deformation of permafrost in proglacial areas.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2_417
DO - 10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2_417
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052397308
SN - 1388-4360
VL - Part 3
SP - 865
EP - 867
JO - Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
JF - Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
ER -