Sorge’s Law of Densification of Snow on High Polar Glaciers
- 1 January 1954
- journal article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Journal of Glaciology
- Vol. 2 (15) , 319-323
- https://doi.org/10.3189/s0022143000025144
Abstract
Ernst Sorge, a member of Wegener’s Greenland Expedition 1930–31, discovered an important law on the densification of snow in high polar glaciers. It is here given a simple mathematical form and some of its implications are formulated and discussed. Apart from its significance to glaciology and snow mechanics, Sorge’s law should also be useful in the study of consolidation of accumulating fine-grained lacustrian and oceanic sediments.Keywords
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