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Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1947-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1947-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
Research article
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26 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 26 Apr 2024

Failure strength of glacier ice inferred from Greenland crevasses

Aslak Grinsted, Nicholas Mossor Rathmann, Ruth Mottram, Anne Munck Solgaard, Joachim Mathiesen, and Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

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Ice fracture can cause glacier crevassing and calving. These natural hazards can also modulate the flow and evolution of ice sheets. In a new study, we use a new high-resolution dataset to determine a new failure criterion for glacier ice. Surprisingly, the strength of ice depends on the mode of deformation, and this has potential implications for the currently used flow law of ice.
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