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Stephen and others, have a look at http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~kaeaeb/ I am sure you'll enjoy Cheers, Slava Stephen White 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. Vladislav ALEKSEEV Institute of Geology and Paleontology Karl-Franzens University of Graz Heinrichstrasse 26 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel.: +43-316-380-8725 Fax: +43-316-380-9870 E-mail: [log in to unmask]