Ice-sheet flow conditions deduced from mechanical tests of ice core
Ice-sheet flow conditions deduced from mechanical tests of ice core
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从冰芯力学测试推导出冰盖流动条件
DOI:
10.3189/172756499781820950
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
P. Duval
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作者:
A. Miyamoto;H. Narita;T. Hondoh;H. Shoji;K. Kawada;O. Watanabe;D. Dahl;N. Gundestrup;H. Clausen;P. Duval
Abstract Uniaxial compression tests were performed on samples of the Greenland Ice Gore Project (GRIP) deep ice core, both in the field and later in a cold-room laboratory, in order to understand the ice-flow behavior of large ice sheets. Experiments were conducted under conditions of constant strain rate (type A) and constant load (type B). Fifty-four uniaxial-compression test specimens from 1327-2922 m were selected. Each test specimen (25 mm x 25 mm x 90 mm) was prepared with its uniaxial stress axis inclined 45° from the core axis in order to examine the flow behavior of strong single-maximum ice-core samples with basal planes parallel to the horizontal plane of the ice sheet. The ice-flow enhancement factors show a gradual increase with depth down to approximately 2000 m. These results can be interpreted in terms of an increase in the fourth-order Schmid factor. Below 2000 m depth, the flow-enhancement factor increases to about 20-30 with a relatively high variability When the Schmid factor was > 0.46, the enhancement factor obtained was higher than expected from the .-axis concentrations measured. The higher values of flow-enhancement factor were obtained from specimens with a cloudy band structure. It was revealed that cloudy bands affect ice-deformation processes, but the details remain unclear.