Steve,
apologies for not giving you a scientific reference. I remember that Mark
Twain in his famous traveller tales from Europe (Tramp Abroad) took into
consideration using a glacier for downhill travel. He was annoyed to find
out that it would take a few thousand years to do the journey. Even for a
lazy traveller like him it was just too much. By the way, I can imagine
what his view point on Creationism was.....
Ciao,
Jochen
>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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