Ice Dome

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The Dome Charlie ice dome and the Concordia research station from the air

An ice dome ( English ice dome ) is a round dome-shaped surface of an ice sheet or ice cap . Its gradient is small, and it often extends over a large area without any clear limitation. The low flow velocity of the ice associated with the low gradient makes ice domes the preferred targets for ice core drilling .

Ice domes of ice sheets can be up to 3000 meters thick, those of ice caps several hundred meters.

Examples of ice domes

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  • Bernadette Hince: The Antarctic Dictionary . A Complete Guide to Antarctic English. Csiro Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-9577471-1-X , p. 179 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • John A Matthews (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Environmental Change . tape 3 . SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4462-4711-2 , pp. 557 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Atle Nesje, Svein Olat Dahl: Glaciers and Environmental Change . Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-0-340-70634-3 , pp. 49 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Glossary of generic geographical names on the website of the Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN), accessed on December 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ List of Arctic and Antarctic ice core drillings ( Memento from November 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

  • Definition on the Australian Antarctic Data Center website