An Examination of the Lliboutry Theory of Glacier Sliding
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- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Glaciology
- Vol. 6 (46) , 489-494
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000019705
Abstract
An examination is made of the Lliboutry theory of glacier sliding. It is concluded that this theory is incompletely developed and therefore it is impossible at present to make meaningful predictions of the sliding velocity from it that might be compared with field data.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Theory of Glacier SlidingJournal of Glaciology, 1964
- On the Sliding of GlaciersJournal of Glaciology, 1957