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标题：Tidal bending and strand cracks at the Kamb Ice Stream grounding line, West Antarctica
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作者：CHRISTINA L. HULBE ; MARIN KLINGER ; MEGAN MASTERSON 等
期刊名称：Journal of Glaciology
印刷版ISSN：0022-1430
电子版ISSN：1727-5652
出版年度：2016
卷号：62
期号：235
页码：816-824
DOI：10.1017/jog.2016.74
出版社：Cambridge University Press
摘要：ABSTRACT An extensive set of shore-parallel fractures are observed at the grounding line of Kamb Ice Stream (KIS) in West Antarctica. Seismicity measured in the grounding zone is, as elsewhere around Antarctica, tidally forced and moreover strand cracks propagate nearly exclusively on the falling tide. Measured surface deflection and a model of fracture propagation are used to conclude that bending on the falling tide favors propagation while bending on the rising tide suppresses propagation. Without the perturbation due to tidal bending, strand cracks would be rare and appear farther downstream than observed. We speculate that the very large number of cracks observed at KIS is due to the stagnant-to-floating transition at that grounding line, which allows cyclic bending of the same ice and relatively large stretching rates.
关键词：grounding line; ice fracture propagation; ice shelves