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Author : Clarke, G.K.C.
Date : 1970
Title : Temperature measurements in Fox Glacier, Yukon Territory
Publication : Glaciers; Proceedings of Workshop Seminar; 1970, British Columbia University, Vancouver, British Columbia, September 24-25, 1970. Canadian National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade, Ottawa, Ontario
Issue :
Page(s) : 47-48
Abstract
Fox Glacier lies in the Steele Creek Drainage Basin in the Icefield Ranges, Yukon Territory. It is a small (4 km long) surging glacier, at present in its quiescent phase. To investigate the thermal regime, thermistor cables were inserted in holes made with electrically-powered thermal drills. All temperatures were below the pressure melting point except in hole 7, at the bottom of which a layer, some 10 m thick, of ice at the pressure melting point was encountered. There were no 'hot spots' other than the one in the vicinity of hole 7. That the glacier has this peculiar thermal regime must surely be related to its surge behavior. Whether the observed hot spot is the cause of the glacier's surge activity, or a consequence of its most recent surge, is still open to question
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