Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf
The Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf is an ice shelf on the north-west part of Ellesmere Island, Canada.[1] This ice mass is one of four remaining ice shelves on the island.
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Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf
Location in Nunavut
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Satellite image showing of Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf
This ice shelf lies between Alert Point and Cape Woods on the Wootton Peninsula. The Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf is regarded as a composite ice shelf that is composed of an inner unit of glacial origin and a trunk glacier originating from sea ice.[2]
Some time around 1955, a section of the ice shelf broke off. It is now called the ARLIS-II ice island.[3]
Further reading
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Map of part of Ellesmere Island showing location of Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf
- Glaciers of North America - Canada, Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1386 – J – 1, pg J111 – J143
- Carsten Braun, Douglas R. Hardy, and Raymond S. Bradley, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 109, (2004). Surface mass balance of the Ward Hunt Ice
- Rise and Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, Roy M. Koerner
- Earth Observatory, by: Nasa Were a Part of the Earths Enterprise[4]
- Jiancheng Zheng, Akira Kudo, David A. Fisher, Erik W. Blake and M. Gerasimoff, The Holocene 8, 4 (1998) pg. 413 – 421, Solid electrical conductivity (ECM) from four, Agassiz ice cores, Ellesmere Island NWT, Canada: high-resolution signal and noise over the last millennium and low resolution over the Holocene
See also
References
- Glaciers of Ellesmere Island Archived June 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Ellesmere Island Ice Shelves and Ice Islands
- The source and calving of ice island ARLIS-II
- "Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf (DAAC Study) : Feature Articles". Earthobservatory.nasa.gov. doi:10.1029/2003GL017931. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
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