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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
卷 79, 期 1, 页码 37-42出版社
AMER ASSOC PHYSICS TEACHERS AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1119/1.3490645
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- Geological Society of America
- Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- NASA
- Applied Information Systems Research Program
We suggest that the existence of many of the rock-carved trails at Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park is predominantly due to the effect of arbitrarily weak winds on rocks that are floated off the soft bed by small rafts of ice, as also occurs in arctic tidal beaches to form boulder barricades. These ice cakes need not have a particularly large surface area if the ice is adequately thick-the ice cakes allow the rocks to move by buoyantly reducing the reaction and friction forces at the bed, not by increasing the wind drag. The parameter space of ice thickness and extent versus rock size for flotation is calculated and found to be reasonable. We demonstrate the effect with a simple experiment. (c) 2011 American Association of Physics Teachers. [DOI: 10.1119/1.3490645]
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