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BAND OGIVE [1 record]

Record 1 2011-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology
DEF

[One of a group of] alternating bands of dirty and clean ice below an ice fall within a glacier, formed by summer and winter movement over the ice fall.

OBS

A type of band described by James D. Forbes (1809-1868), English physicist, who originally named it a "dirt band."

OBS

Forbes was ... the first to recognize the annual dirt bands that mark glaciers below ice falls. These bands are commonly called "ogives," but are more properly named "Forbes bands" ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
DEF

Différenciation à la surface du glacier, à l'aval des grandes chutes de glace, de bandes paraboliques annuelles à convexité tournée vers l'aval, elles combinent une disposition en vagues transversales avec une alternance de colorations claire et foncée.

CONT

Les bandes de Forbes ou ogives sont des bandes annuelles, bleues ou sombres, à la surface d'un glacier. Elles sont liées à la chute de séracs. La glace est zébrée de bandes alternativement bleutées (claire en hiver) ou grises (en été, dues aux poussières) qui se déforment progressivement en ogives ou chevrons. La chute de séracs est une condition essentielle mais toutes les chutes ne donnent pas forcément des bandes de Forbes.

Spanish

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