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Dissipation Of Tidal Energy By Flexing Ice Shelves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

C. S. M. Doake*
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Madingley Road, cambridge CB3 0ET, England
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Abstract

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Plastic deformation of ice shelves in the region along the grounding line where they bend with the tide can dissipate enough tidal energy to make them the most important single source contribution to tidal friction (Doake, 1978). Some of the effects are to slow the rotation of the Earth and to cause the moon to retreat from the Earth.

Type
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Symposium but not Published in Full in this volume
Copyright
Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1979

References

Doake, C. S. M., 1978. Dissipation of tidal energy by Antarctic ice shelves. Nature, Vol. 275, No. 5678, p. 304305.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar