Kamb Ice Stream
| Kamb Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 15 ′ S , 145 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Kamb Ice Stream (formerly Ice Stream C ) is an ice stream in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is one of several large ice streams that drain the Marie Byrd Land to the Ross Ice Shelf . It flows west between the Siple Dome and the Whillans Ice Stream to the Siple Coast . In contrast to the Whillans Ice Stream and the neighboring Bindschadler Ice Stream , which have surface flow speeds of up to 800 meters per year, the flow of the Kamb Ice Stream has largely stagnated.
Teams from the United States Antarctic Research Program (USAP) surveyed the ice flow in several campaigns between 1983 and 1984. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2002 after the American glaciologist Barclay James Kamb (* 1958) from the California Institute of Technology , who was involved in geophysical and other measurements of the behavior of ice flows in Marie Byrd Land in the 1990s.
Web links
- Kamb Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kamb Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG): Antarctica: More dynamic than assumed , accessed on April 24, 2016