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A technique for producing strain-free flat surfaces on single crystals of ice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

Henri Bader
Henri Bader*
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Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, 10 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149, U.S.A.
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Journal of Glaciology , Volume 11 , Issue 61 , 1972, pp. 158
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Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1972

SIR,

The paper by Reference Tobin and ItagakiTobin and Itagaki (1970) reminds me of a possibly useful experiment made many years ago in a cold room at the U.S. Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. Rods 5 × 1 × 0.5 cm were cut from a Mendenhall Glacier single crystal with the long dimension approximately parallel to the c-axis. At – 10° C the rods were broken by slowly pressing over the edge of a bench. They usually broke in cleavage normal to the c-axis, yielding apparently perfectly flat mirror surfaces.

References

Tobin, T. M. and Itagaki, K. 1970. Instruments and methods. A technique for producing strain-free flat surfaces on single crystals of ice. Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 9, No. 57, p. 385–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar