Movement of the Ross Ice Shelf Near Scott Base

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1 January 1961

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Glaciology

Vol. 3 (29) , 859-866
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000027234

Abstract

The rate of movement of the Ross Ice Shelf has been determined at its terminal face to the south-east of Scott Base. An average rate of movement of 23 cm./day in a direction 270° True was determined for the period March 1957 to October 1958. The terminating face of the ice shelf in McMurdo Sound is only about 3 metres thick compared with a thickness of several hundred metres in the Ross Sea. Altimeter heights are used to demonstrate a thinning of the shelf which is attributed to melting from below.

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