Marine ice deformation experiments: An empirical validation of creep parameters

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 134-138

  Dierckx, Marie ^a   Tison, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP PARAMETERS; DEFORMATION CURVES; EMPIRICAL TEMPERATURES; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; RHEOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP; STRESS CONDITION; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION;

DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; RHEOLOGY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ICE;

CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ICE MECHANICS; ICE SHELF; POWER LAW; RHEOLOGY; SEA ICE; VISCOSITY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84874897032     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054197     Document Type: Article

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