Rutford Ice Stream
| Rutford Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 0 ′ S , 81 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
The Rutford Ice Stream is a large, approximately 290 km long and over 24 km wide ice stream in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in a south-easterly direction between the Ellsworth Mountains and the Fletcher Ice Rise in the south-western part of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf . Its catchment area covers 52,000 km². Research shows that the lower part of the ice flow is influenced by the sea tides .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the American geologist Robert Hoxie Rutford (1933-2019), who had led several expeditions of the United States Antarctic Research Program to Antarctica , including the expedition of the University of Minnesota carried out from 1963 to 1964 in the Ellsworth Mountains, and from 1975 to 1977 head of the department for polar programs at the National Science Foundation .
Web links
- Rutford Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rutford Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ scinexx - Das Wissensmagazin (Ed. MMCD NEW MEDIA GmbH ): Ebb and flow also have an effect on glaciers , accessed on April 16, 2013
- ↑ Wolfgang Kobarg, 1988: The tidal dynamics of the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica (PDF; 2.5 MB), in: Reports on Polar Research No. 50, ISSN 0176-5027 , published on the website of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz- Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), accessed on April 16, 2013