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Icequakes used to measure friction and slip at a glacier bed
(2023). Icequakes used to measure friction and slip at a glacier bed. Nature Geoscience 16(7): 556-557. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01207-1
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
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Hudson, T.S.; Kufner, S.K.; Brisbourne, A.M.; Kendall, J.M.; Smith, A.M.; Alley, R.B.; Arthern, R.J.; Murray, T. (2023). Highly variable friction and slip observed at Antarctic ice stream bed. Nature Geoscience 16(7): 612-618. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01204-4, more
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    Marine/Coastal

Abstract
    Icequake observations were combined with an analytical friction model to measure friction and slip at the bed of an Antarctic ice stream. Friction and slip are found to be highly variable in space and time, controlled by higher-than-expected normal stresses at the ice–bed interface.

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