Hello Everybody,
I'm setting an exercise for students to calculate shear
strains in glaciers. I've tackled problems such as this
myself as a student, always under the impression that they
were based on actual experiments, but I don't have any
references to these.
Can anyone out there please help with references to real
examples of glacier strain experiments? The kind of thing
I'm thinking of is:
"In 1950 a group of structural geologists, thwarted by bad
weather and unable to complete their climb, instead hammer
their pitons into a glacier, in a line perpendicular to its
margins. In 1980 they come back to relocate the stakes with
a metal detctor and find that the stakes have been displaced
. . . "
with thanks in advance
Steve White
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