Abstract
Zones of shear, a few centimeters thick, in otherwise weakly deformed superimposed ice at the margin of the Barnes Ice Cap, are marked by decrease in plunge of elongate air bubbles, increase in degree of preferred crystallographic orientation, increase in grain size, and the development of a weakly sutured texture. The shear zone boundaries are parallel to bedrock and a direction of maximum shearing strain rate. In the interiors, shear strain attains values exceeding γ = 10, and the c-axes are tightly grouped in a cluster normal to the shear zone boundaries. With increase in overall deformation, the ice attains a high and apparently uniform shear strain by growth and coalescence of shear zones, leaving relict lenses of lower strain, or 'less-deformed zones', with characters opposite to those of the shear zones themselves.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 189-196 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Structural Geology |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1980 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements--This research was supported financially by the National Science Foundation (Grants GA-42728 & EAR-77-12990) and logistically by the Glaciology Division, Environment, Canada. The manuscript has been significantly improved by the comments and suggestions of Stan White and an anonymous reviewer.