Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 08:28
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Studies

Hello Mr. G this is a student from Ruskin High school in Kansas City MO and I want to know since your on the ice about how thin do you think the ice sheets are???? Laughing

Mon, 12/17/2007 - 17:03

Brandon Gillette

The ice thickness where we are here at WAIS Divide is over 3,000 meters thick.  Across the continent it can range from a couple hundred meters thick to nearly 4,000 or higher in some places.  Sea ice can be as few as 4-5 meters thick and still have a C-17 plane land on it!  The C-17 we flew to McMurdo in weighed a half a million pounds and was able to land on the sea ice!~Gillette