The Ross Ice Shelf Project

@article{Clough1979TheRI,
  title={The Ross Ice Shelf Project},
  author={John W. Clough and B. Lyle. Hansen},
  journal={Science},
  year={1979},
  volume={203},
  pages={433 - 434}
}
A hole was drilled through the Ross Ice Shelf 450 kilometers from the barrier. Scientific sampling through this hole revealed a sparse population of crustaceans, fish, and microbial biomass. The seabed consists of mid-Miocene glaciomarine mud. Geothermal heat flow is average. Oceanographic data indicate an active circulation and melting at the base of the ice. 
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Life Below the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
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Samples and observations under 420 meters of ice and 430 kilometers from the open sea on the Ross Ice Shelf revealed an unusual assemblage of benthic organisms that may be accounted for by sampling or spatial bias, or by extremely low or fluctuating trophic resources.
Core Drilling Through the Ross Ice Shelf (Antarctica) Confirmed Basal Freezing
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Circulation and Melting Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf
Thermohaline observations in the water column beneath the Ross Ice Shelf and along its terminal face show significant vertical stratification, active horizontal circulation, and net melting at the…
Fish, Crustaceans, and the Sea Floor Under the Ross Ice Shelf
Baited traps and a camera lowered through the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, at a point 475 kilometers from the open Ross Sea and to 597 meters below sea level revealed the presence of fish, many…
Drilling to the beds of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: a review
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"Submerged Shorelines" on Glaciated Continental Shelves: Solving the Puzzle?
A hypothesis is proposed which has been based upon an analysis of physical processes operating at the grounding line of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. It suggests that the submarine terrace- shaped…
Organic carbon in sediments underlying the Ross Ice Shelf
Sediment core from beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, suggests mid-Holocene ice-shelf retreat
The stability of floating ice shelves is an important indicator of ocean circulation and ice-shelf mass balance. A sub–ice-shelf sediment core collected during the Austral summer of 2000–2001 from…
Flexural waves in the Ross Ice Shelf
Flexural waves related to the ocean swell are identified more than 600 km from the open sea in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, where the ice cover is in places more than 500 m thick. An equation…
Ross Ice Shelf temperatures support a history of ice-shelf thickening
The ice sheet in West Antarctica is grounded on a sub-sea level basin in the Antarctic continental shelf. At the seaward margins, where ice thicknesses are reduced sufficiently to attain neutral…
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Life Below the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
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Samples and observations under 420 meters of ice and 430 kilometers from the open sea on the Ross Ice Shelf revealed an unusual assemblage of benthic organisms that may be accounted for by sampling or spatial bias, or by extremely low or fluctuating trophic resources.
Circulation and Melting Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf
Thermohaline observations in the water column beneath the Ross Ice Shelf and along its terminal face show significant vertical stratification, active horizontal circulation, and net melting at the…
Miocene Glaciomarine Sediments from Beneath the Southern Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
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Glaciomarine sediments with middle Miocene microfaunal assemblages are exposed at the sea floor below the southern Ross Ice Shelf, and a meager Recent microfauna is present in some core tops.
Fish, Crustaceans, and the Sea Floor Under the Ross Ice Shelf
Baited traps and a camera lowered through the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, at a point 475 kilometers from the open Ross Sea and to 597 meters below sea level revealed the presence of fish, many…
Ross Ice Shelf Sea Temperatures
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It is concluded that an inflow of water at intermediate depths provides a source of heat to drive a regime in which ice is melted from the interface at a depth of 360 meters.
Ice shelves and ice flow
New data on the Ross Ice Shelf provide an insight into the importance of the momentum with which an ice stream enters the shelf for the overall velocity field.
Occurrence and Metabolic Activity of Organisms Under the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, at Station J9
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Seawater samples below the Ross Ice Shelf were collected through an access hole at J9 and it cannot be determined whether these organisms in the water column and sediments constitute a functioning food web.
Ocean Tide and Waves Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
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The amplitudes of the diurnal tide constituents are larger in the Ross Sea than in the adjacent southern Pacific Ocean, indicating the existence of a diurnal resonance related to the shape and depth of the sea.
The freezing point of seawater at pressures up to 100 bars
The freezing point of seawater has been measured in the salinity range 18‰ < S ≤ 35‰ at atmospheric pressure showing results consistently lower than Hansen's (1904) values. Our data fit the curve Tƒ…
A Note on the Contribution of Rime and Surface Hoar to the Accumulation on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica