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Good, Walter (2011): Table 1: Parameters of 21 samples from core III of Vernagtferner. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.772125, Supplement to: Good, W (1982): Structural investigations of snow and ice on core III from the drilling on Vernagtferner, Austria, in 1979. Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 18(1), 53-64, hdl:10013/epic.38456.d001

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Abstract:
The purpose of this study was: (1) To make an attempt at finding a stratification of the snowpack in order to help remove ambiguities in dating the snowlayers by standard methods. (2) To verify the depth at which the transition between firn and ice occurs.
Clearly the first goal was missed, the structural information in a temperate firn being strongly smoothed out in time. Interesting details like horizontal ice lenses and layers of "cold snow" however, were revealed. In spite of strong variations of density, gravimetric density PG and ice density PI, computed from point density, are identical for the firn pack between Z = 2.0 m and 6.0 m. p(ice) = 0.522 ± 0.034 x 10**3 kg/m**3. The ice density of 0.8 x 10**3 kg/m**3, the assumed transition between firn and ice, was found to occur at a depth of Z= 19 m. Even at this level, rather important variations in density may be localized. Between Z= 19 m and 21 m, the ice density varies from 0.774 x 10**3 to 0.860 x 10**3 kg/m**3.
Coverage:
Latitude: 46.866660 * Longitude: 10.816660
Date/Time Start: 1982-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1982-01-01T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, ice/snow: 2.35 m * Maximum DEPTH, ice/snow: 6.26 m
Event(s):
Vernagtferner_I-VI * Latitude: 46.866660 * Longitude: 10.816660 * Date/Time: 1982-01-01T00:00:00 * Recovery: 80 m * Location: Vernagtferner, Ötztaler Alpen, Austria * Method/Device: Ice drill (ICEDRILL)
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1NumberNoGood, Walter
2Sample code/labelSample labelGood, Walter
3DEPTH, ice/snowDepth ice/snowmGeocode
4Mean, statisticalMeanGood, WalterPoint density
5VarianceVarGood, WalterPoint density
6MinimumMinGood, WalterPoint density
7MaximumMaxGood, WalterPoint density
8Mean, statisticalMeanGood, WalterLine intersects
9VarianceVarGood, WalterLine intersects
10MinimumMinGood, WalterLine intersects
11MaximumMaxGood, WalterLine intersects
12Mean, statisticalMeanGood, WalterGrain intercept
13VarianceVarGood, WalterGrain intercept
14MinimumMinGood, WalterGrain intercept
15MaximumMaxGood, WalterGrain intercept
16Mean, statisticalMeanGood, WalterVoid intercept
17VarianceVarGood, WalterVoid intercept
18MinimumMinGood, WalterVoid intercept
19MaximumMaxGood, WalterVoid intercept
Size:
378 data points

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