Ice cusps

Eishöcker ( English ice rumples ) called areas where an ice shelf over a shoal slides, it rises and breaks. They differ from ice domes in their lower height of a few to a maximum of 100 meters and in the direction of the ice movement, which is visible through the pattern of the ice crevices. The ice flows over the ice cusps and maintains the general direction of flow of the adjacent ice shelf. Ice cusps can deflect the flow direction of the ice shelf, but with an ice dome that is mainly fed by precipitation, the flow of the ice is directed radially outwards - regardless of the flow direction of the ice shelf. Most of the ice mass of an ice hump, on the other hand, is not accumulated locally.

Examples of ice humps:

Individual evidence

^ Glossary of generic geographical names on the website of the Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN), accessed on December 9, 2017.
↑ Kenichi Matsuoka et al .: Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution . In: Earth Science Reviews . tape 150 , 2015, p. 724-745 , doi : 10.1016 / j.earscirev.2015.09.004 (English).

Web links

Definition on the Australian Antarctic Data Center website

[1] Glossary of generic geographical names on the website of the Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN), accessed on December 9, 2017.

[2] Kenichi Matsuoka et al .: Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution . In: Earth Science Reviews . tape 150 , 2015, p. 724-745 , doi : 10.1016 / j.earscirev.2015.09.004 (English).