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elastic solid. ice will not flow until it has reached a thickness of meters ( ft), but after meters ( ft), small amounts of stress can result in a large amount of strain, causing the deformation to become a plastic flow rather than elastic. at this point the glacier will begin to deform under its own weight
flow law , the relationship between stress and strain, and thus the rate of internal flow, can be modeled as follows: [ ] [ ] σ = k τ n , {\displaystyle \sigma =k au ^{n},\,} where: σ {\displaystyle \sigma \,} = shear strain (flow) rate τ {\displaystyle au \,} = stress n {\displaystyle n\,} = a constant...
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