Can unconfined ice shelves provide buttressing via hoop stresses?
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DOI: 10.1017/jog.2019.101
Abstract: The stress balance within an ice shelf is key to the resistance, or buttressing, it can provide and in part controls the rate of ice discharge from the upstream ice sheet. Unconfined ice shelves are… read more here.
Keywords: unconfined ice; ice shelves; provide buttressing; hoop stresses ... See more keywords