This study aimed to examine the processes of ice accretion at the base of dry-based glaciers in the Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land. Dry-based glaciers have no englacial or basal melt water formation and are therefore frozen to the bed. As a result, flow of these glaciers is by ice deformation. This raises the question of how substrate deformation and in particular the entrainment of sediment blocks occur in dry-based glaciers.

Publications

Hooker, B.L., Fitzsimons, S.J., Morgan, R.K. Chemical characteristics and origin of clear basal ice facies in dry-based glaciers, south Victoria Land, Antarctica. Global and planetary change 22: 29-38, 1999.

Hooker, B. L. Chemical signatures of clear basal ice facies at the margins of dry-based glaciers, South Victoria Land, Antarctica. MSc, University of Otago, 1998.