Abstract
The idea of predicting the thickness of an ice sheet directly from surface slope can be misleading. The slope of the surface now appears to be related not only to the thickness of the ice but also to changes of longitudinal stress resulting from movement of ice over varying bottom slopes.
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ROBIN, G. Surface Topography of Ice Sheets. Nature 215, 1029–1032 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151029a0
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