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Article

Publication Title

Annals of Glaciology

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Publication Date

2009

First Page

121

Last Page

129

Issue Number

51

Volume Number

50

Abstract/ Summary

Englacial horizons deeper than 100 m are absent within 100 MHz ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surface profiles we recorded on Clark and Commonwealth Glaciers in the Antarctic Dry Valleys region. Both glaciers show continuous bottom horizons to 280 m, with bottom signal-to-noise ratios near 30 dB. Density horizons should fade below 50 m depth because impermeable ice occurred by 36 m. Folding within Commonwealth Glacier could preclude radar strata beneath about 80 m depth, but there is no significant folding within Clark Glacier. Strong sulfate concentrations and contrasts exist in our shallow ice core. However, it appears that high background concentration levels, and possible decreased concentration contrasts with depth placed their corresponding reflection coefficients at the limit of, or below, our system sensitivity by about 77 m depth. Further verification of this conclusion awaits processing of our deep-core chemistry profiles.

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Arcone, SA, and Kreutz, K, 2009, GPR Reflection Profiles of Clark and Commonwealth Glaciers, Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Annals of Glaciology, v. 50, p. 121-129. Available on publisher's site at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/agl/2009/00000050/00000051/art00017

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