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Main Author: Good, Walter
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Published: PANGAEA 2011
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.772125
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contents The purpose of this study was: (1) To make an attempt at finding a stratification of the snowpack in order to help remove ambiguities in dating the snowlayers by standard methods. (2) To verify the depth at which the transition between firn and ice occurs. Clearly the first goal was missed, the structural information in a temperate firn being strongly smoothed out in time. Interesting details like horizontal ice lenses and layers of "cold snow" however, were revealed. In spite of strong variations of density, gravimetric density PG and ice density PI, computed from point density, are identical for the firn pack between Z = 2.0 m and 6.0 m. p(ice) = 0.522 ± 0.034 x 10**3 kg/m**3. The ice density of 0.8 x 10**3 kg/m**3, the assumed transition between firn and ice, was found to occur at a depth of Z= 19 m. Even at this level, rather important variations in density may be localized. Between Z= 19 m and 21 m, the ice density varies from 0.774 x 10**3 to 0.860 x 10**3 kg/m**3.
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spellingShingle Table 1: Parameters of 21 samples from core III of Vernagtferner
Good, Walter
DEPTH, ice/snow; ICEDRILL; Ice drill; Maximum; Mean, statistical; Minimum; Number; Sample code/label; Variance; Vernagtferner_I-VI; Vernagtferner, Ötztaler Alpen, Austria
The purpose of this study was: (1) To make an attempt at finding a stratification of the snowpack in order to help remove ambiguities in dating the snowlayers by standard methods. (2) To verify the depth at which the transition between firn and ice occurs. Clearly the first goal was missed, the structural information in a temperate firn being strongly smoothed out in time. Interesting details like horizontal ice lenses and layers of "cold snow" however, were revealed. In spite of strong variations of density, gravimetric density PG and ice density PI, computed from point density, are identical for the firn pack between Z = 2.0 m and 6.0 m. p(ice) = 0.522 ± 0.034 x 10**3 kg/m**3. The ice density of 0.8 x 10**3 kg/m**3, the assumed transition between firn and ice, was found to occur at a depth of Z= 19 m. Even at this level, rather important variations in density may be localized. Between Z= 19 m and 21 m, the ice density varies from 0.774 x 10**3 to 0.860 x 10**3 kg/m**3.
title Table 1: Parameters of 21 samples from core III of Vernagtferner
topic DEPTH, ice/snow; ICEDRILL; Ice drill; Maximum; Mean, statistical; Minimum; Number; Sample code/label; Variance; Vernagtferner_I-VI; Vernagtferner, Ötztaler Alpen, Austria
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.772125