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Glaciers are one of the most striking examples of a material undergoing creep. The flow of these large bodies of ice is driven by self-weight and occurs as a result of the very high homologous temperature at which ice exists under atmospheric conditions. Deformation-related motions are in the order of centimetres to metres per year and the hydrostatic pressure at the base of the largest ice caps may be up to 40 MPa. Numerous investigations have been conducted to unravel the physical processes taking place in what may be considered the longest lived, in situ creep experiments available to material scientists.
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Barrette, P.D., Jordaan, I.J. (2001). Creep of Ice and Microstructural Changes under Confining Pressure. In: Murakami, S., Ohno, N. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Creep in Structures. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9628-2_46
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