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Record W2121420163 · doi:10.2475/08.2010.03

Dynamics of an alpine cirque glacier

2010· article· en· W2121420163 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Science · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicCryospheric studies and observations
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Science Foundation
KeywordsCirqueGeologyGlacierCirque glacierGeomorphologyGlacier morphologyGeodesyIce streamClimatologySea ice

Abstract

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Alpine cirques are excavated by glacial erosion, a process that depends in turn on the movement of ice by basal sliding. Cirque glacier flow is usually depicted as rotational sliding of a rigid block, but this model is based on little evidence and implies unorthodox glacier behavior given typical cirque dimensions. The small (∼1 km^2^), temperate West Washmawapta Glacier occupies an archetypal overdeepened and "armchair-shaped" cirque in the Canadian Rockies. We measured (1) the annual surface velocity field, (2) ice thickness, (3) sliding and internal deformation at one borehole, and (4) sliding in a marginal cavity. The glacier moves slowly, with surface velocities of 3 to 10 m/yr. The maximum ice thickness (∼185 m) occurs in the center of the cirque basin and roughly coincides with the position of greatest ice flux. Using our field measurements, a standard constitutive relation for ice, and simplifying assumptions related to the depth distribution of strain rates, we approximated the driving and resisting forces acting on sections of the glacier, and inferred the general pattern of basal sliding. Sliding is minimum in the center of the cirque and increases toward the margins, especially up the stoss side of the riegel. Internal deformation accounts for all motion in the cirque center, even if an unusually low viscosity for temperate ice is assumed. Basal shear stresses tend toward 10^5^ Pa everywhere, a typical value for mountain glaciers. Transverse and longitudinal straining are significant in some parts of the glacier. Although a component of rotational flow must occur internally, the glacier does not conform to the rotational sliding model in any essential respect.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.334
Threshold uncertainty score0.881

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it