Steve:
Well one start would be the volume I helped put together at the end of
last year - "Deformation of Glacial Materials", (Maltman, A. J., Hubbard,
B. & Hambrey, M. J., 2000, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ. 176) - and in particular
the paper by Hambrey and Lawson ("Structural styles and deformation fields
in glaciers") as it's a recent review.
Alex Maltman
At 16:51 01/06/01 +0200, you wrote:
>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
>
>
Dr. Alex Maltman
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
University of Wales
Aberystwyth SY23 3DB
Wales
U.K.
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