Mountaineering experience is essential in crevassed areas.
Ice crystals have a single preferred plane of easy deformation, defined by the C-axis.
This reading course covers a series of papers describing how preferred fabrics develop in glaciers and ice sheets, how the anisotropy alters the way that glaciers and ice sheets deform in response to gravitaional stresses, and how we can measure the anisotropy. Copies of these papers will be deposited in the 4th floor lounge in the ATG building. These copies can be borrowed for short periods for photocopying. We welcome participation from non-enrolled but interested members of the university community.