Physics
Scientific paper
May 2002
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Icarus, Volume 157, Issue 1, pp. 264-267 (2002).
Physics
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Scientific paper
The surface of the northern martian ice cap is known to contain alternating white-dark scarp-trough features, and one method of their formation involves spatially coherent patterns of ice accumulation and ablation via sublimation. In this so-called ``accublation'' model, the internal ice sheet layers submerge into the ice sheet across the accumulation zone and emerge to the ice surface across the ablation region. Here we report on an Antarctic analogy to the martian accublation model, which demonstrates that surface mass balance conditions actually affect internal ice-sheet structure as predicted by D. A. Fisher (2000, Icarus 144, 289-294). This analogy shows how it is possible for ancient ice to become exposed at the surface of an ice sheet, allowing the paleoclimate record stored within the ice to be measured without the need for deep ice coring. .
Fisher David A.
Siegert Martin J.
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