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      General theory of water flow at the base of a glacier or ice sheet

      Reviews of Geophysics
      American Geophysical Union (AGU)

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          On the Sliding of Glaciers

          A model is proposed to explain the sliding of any glacier whose bottom surface is at the pressure melting point. Two mechanisms are considered. One is pressure melting and the other is creep rate enhancement through stress concentrations. Neither of the mechanisms operating alone is sufficient to explain sliding. If both mechanisms operate together appreciable sliding can occur.
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            Sliding motion of glaciers: Theory and observation

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              The Theory of Glacier Sliding

              The theory of the sliding of glaciers presented by the author in earlier papers has been generalized (1) by taking into account the resistance to sliding offered by obstacles both smaller and larger than the controlling obstacles and (2) by relaxing the assumption that ice is always in intimate contact with the bed at the down-stream side of an obstacle. The sliding velocities and controlling obstacle sizes which are found from the generalized theory are approximately the same as those found from the earlier theory. A new result obtained from the present theory is that a water layer an order of magnitude smaller in thickness than the height of the controlling obstacles can cause an appreciable increase in the sliding velocity. The generalized theory contains Lliboutry’s sliding theory as an extreme limiting case. For certain thicknesses of a glacier the sliding velocity is a double-valued function of the shear stress exerted at the bed.
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                Journal
                REGEEP
                Reviews of Geophysics
                Rev. Geophys.
                American Geophysical Union (AGU)
                8755-1209
                1972
                1972
                : 10
                : 1
                : 287
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                10.1029/RG010i001p00287
                319f20a1-f368-4e79-982b-9bab9028b91d
                © 1972

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