Ice microstructure and fabric: An up-to-date approach for measuring textures

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 179, 2006, Pages 619-630

  Durand, Gaël ^a   Gagliardini, O ^b   Thorsteinsson, Throstur ^c   Svensson, Anders ^a   Kipfstuhl, Sepp ^d   Dahl Jensen, Dorthe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Institute of Earth Sciences   (Iceland)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARY; ICE CRYSTAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURE;

EID: 33847051988     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756506781828377     Document Type: Article

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