Comment on “Friction at the bed does not control fast glacier flow”
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stearnsVanderveen2018_vr1.pdf
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Author(s)
Minchew, Brent M
Meyer, Colin R
Pegler, Samuel S
Lipovsky, Bradley P
Rempel, Alan W
Gudmundsson, G Hilmar
Iverson, Neal R
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
© 2017 The Authors. Stearns and van der Veen (Reports, 20 July 2018, p. 273) conclude that fast glacier sliding is independent of basal drag (friction), even where drag balances most of the driving stress. This conclusion raises fundamental physical issues, the most striking of which is that sliding velocity would be independent of stresses imparted through the ice column, including gravitational driving stress.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1126/SCIENCE.AAU6055
