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Science 25 April 1980:
Vol. 208. no. 4442, pp. 395 - 397
DOI: 10.1126/science.208.4442.395
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Seasonal Movements in a Salt Glacier in Iran

CHRISTOPHER J. TALBOT 1 and ERIC A. ROGERS 1

1 Department of Geology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland DD1 4HN

The philosophy of the storage of high-grade radioactive wastes in salt seems to be based on the assumption that the salt glaciers of Iran are no longer moving. Monitoring the movements of markers painted onto one of the salt glaciers suggests that the glacier deforms elastically as a result of temperature changes most of the time but flows plastically when it is sufficiently wet during each annual rainy season.

Submitted on August 7, 1979
Revised on January 14, 1980


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