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GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
卷 92A, 期 4, 页码 451-467出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00407.x
关键词
ground-penetrating radar; mapping; New Zealand; strain rate; structural glaciology
资金
- School of People, Environment and Planning's (Massey University)
This paper describes the structural glaciology of the lower Fox Glacier, a 12.7 km-long valley glacier draining the western side of the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Field data are combined with analysis of aerial photographs to present a structural interpretation of a 5 km-long segment covering the lower trunk of the glacier, from the upper icefall down-glacier to the terminus. The glacier typifies the structural patterns observed in many other alpine glaciers, including: primary stratification visible within crevasse walls in the lower icefall; foliation visible in crevasses below the lower icefall; a complex set of intersecting crevasse traces; splaying and chevron crevasses at the glacier margins; transverse crevasses forming due to longitudinal extension; longitudinal crevasses due to lateral extension near the snout; and, arcuate up-glacier dipping structures between the foot of the lower icefall and the terminus. The latter are interpreted as crevasse traces that have been reactivated as thrust faults, accommodating longitudinal compression at the glacier snout. Weak band-ogives are visible below the upper icefall, and these could be formed by multiple shearing zones uplifting basal ice to the glacier surface to produce the darker bands, rather than by discrete fault planes. Many structures such as crevasses traces do not show a clear relationship with measured surface strain-rates, in which case they may be 'close to crevassing', or are undergoing passive transport down-glacier.
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