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ice shelf buttressing: a standalone construct

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Glaciology

the resistance an ice shelf exerts on upstream grounded ice through lateral drag and pinning points, slowing its flow.

In glaciology, ice shelf buttressing refers to the resistance an ice shelf exerts on upstream grounded ice through lateral drag and pinning points, slowing its flow. This meaning comes from Dupont (2005) in Geophysical Research Letters.[1]

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drag3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs flow6 names · 12 citationsjangle · five names, one experience, partly pinning3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

References

Dupont, T. K., & Alley, R. B. (2005). Assessment of the importance of ice‐shelf buttressing to ice‐sheet flow. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gl022024

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