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On the use of stable isotopes to trace the origins of ice in a floating ice tongue

Author(s) -

Gow Anthony J.,

Epstein Samuel

Publication year - 1972

Publication title -

journal of geophysical research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67

H-Index - 298

eISSN - 2156-2202

pISSN - 0148-0227

DOI - 10.1029/jc077i033p06552

Subject(s) - geology , sea ice , antarctic sea ice , arctic ice pack , fast ice , ice divide , oceanography , sea ice thickness , pancake ice , drift ice , ice stream , cryosphere

Stable isotope analysis has been used successfully to distinguish between several different ice types in an ice tongue floating on sea water in Antarctica. At one critical location this technique has provided the only means of discriminating unambiguously between glacial ice and fresh‐water ice formed from desalinated sea water. This part of the ice tongue is now underlain by a layer of desalted sea water thick enough to prevent any further accretion of sea ice at this location.

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