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标题：The role of crystal fabric in flow near an ice divide
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作者：Erin C. Pettit ; Throstur Thorsteinsson ; H. Paul Jacobson 等
期刊名称：Journal of Glaciology
印刷版ISSN：0022-1430
电子版ISSN：1727-5652
出版年度：2007
卷号：53
期号：181
页码：277-288
DOI：10.3189/172756507782202766
出版社：Cambridge University Press
摘要：Polycrystalline ice near an ice divide typically shows a crystal fabric (crystal preferred orientation) with c axes clustered vertically. We explore the effect of this fabric on the large-scale flow pattern near an ice divide. We incorporate an analytical formulation for anisotropy into a non-linear flow law within a finite-element ice-sheet flow model. With four different depth profiles of crystal fabric, we find that the effect of fabric is significant only when a profile has a minimum cone angle of less than ~25º. For a steady-state divide, the shape and size of the isochrone arch can depend as much on the crystal fabric as it does on the non-linearity of ice flow. A vertically oriented fabric tends to increase the size of the isochrone arch, never to reduce it. Also, non-random fabric has little effect on the ice-divide-flow pattern when ice is modeled as a linear (Newtonian) fluid. Finally, when we use a crystal-fabric profile that closely approximates the measured profile for Siple Dome, West Antarctica, the model predicts concentrated bed-parallel shearing 300 m above the bed.