Earth & Environmental Science · Hydrology & Glaciology
A topic within Hydrology & Glaciology, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Earth & Environmental Science.
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John Tyndall
Explains glacier motion, crevassing and the blue colour of ice as consequences of ice's internal structure, written to make physical glaciology intelligible to a general reader.
link checked 17 Sept 2026J. F. Nye
Treats glacier flow as the plastic deformation of a solid rather than the motion of a viscous fluid, giving the first quantitative theory that predicts observed ice-sheet profiles and velocity distributions.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026