Stratigraphic studies in the snow and firn of the Greenland ice sheet /

During a 4-yr period (1952-55) 146 pit studies and 288 supplementary Rammsonde profiles were made along 1100 miles of oversnow traverse in western Greenland. Temperature, density, ram hardness, and grain size were measured in the strata exposed in each pit. Stratification of snow, resulting from var...

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Main Author:	Benson, Carl S.
Corporate Author:	U.S. Army Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Research Establishment
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Hanover, N.H.] : U.S. Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment, Corps of Engineers, 1962.
Series:	Research report (U.S. Army Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Research Establishment) ; 70.
Subjects:	Ice > Greenland. Snow.