Comment on “Friction at the bed does not control fast glacier flow”

© 2017 The Authors. Stearns and van der Veen (Reports, 20 July 2018, p. 273) conclude that fast glacier sliding is independent of basal drag (friction), even where drag balances most of the driving stress. This conclusion raises fundamental physical issues, the most striking of which is that sliding...

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Main Authors: Minchew, Brent M, Meyer, Colin R, Pegler, Samuel S, Lipovsky, Bradley P, Rempel, Alan W, Gudmundsson, G Hilmar, Iverson, Neal R
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133822