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Wire strainmeters on ice

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WE have installed a geophysical wire strainmeter for brief periods on the Roslin glacier, Stauning Alps, East Greenland and on the sea ice at Bylot Sound, Thule, North-west Greenland. The technique promises to yield information concerning the mechanism of deformation and flow in ice.

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  1. R. G. BILHAM

    Present address: Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 10964

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  1. Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK

    D. J. GOODMAN

  2. Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

    A. J. ALLAN

  3. Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge, UK

    R. G. BILHAM

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GOODMAN, D., ALLAN, A. & BILHAM, R. Wire strainmeters on ice. Nature 255, 45–46 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255045a0

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