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University of Washington Blue Glacier Project, Ice Fall Tunnel, 1967
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| Clip Title | University of Washington Blue Glacier Project, Ice Fall Tunnel, 1967 |
| Clip Summary | Opening Titles: Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington, Blue Glacier Project 1967 Ice Fall Tunnel
People working on far end of tunnel, man loading sled into tunnel, men pushing rope on pulley then slowly pulling up on it, man examining wall of tunnel, man using drill to remove ice from tunnel wall, ice formations in cave. |
| Duration | 3 min., 20 sec. |
| Digital Format | Video |
| Original Source Title | Blue Glacier, Reel C-457 |
| Original Source Summary | Team works on the 1967 Blue Glacier Project, Ice Fall Tunnel, on Mount Olympus in the Olympic Mountain range in Washington State. |
| Participants/Performers | Unidentified |
| Notes | Clip title supplied by cataloger.
The following information was provided by respondents to requests for information from UW Week "Lost & Found Films" series, 2009-10.
Tim Sharcks, Evans School of Public Affairs, writes: We can be fairly certain that the title is referring to the Blue Glacier icefall on Mount Olympus, the highest (and most glaciated) mountain in the Olympic Mountains. There was a research station near the Snow Dome, a glacial feature adjacent to the Blue Glacier, since at least the late 1950s. The station is remarkable in that it is pretty remote (it is an 18 mile hike to the base of the Blue Glacier). Here is a link to the field station for the Blue Glacier field station, you might contact those listed to find out more about the film: http://www.washington.edu/research/field/glacier.html An early article based on research conducted on the Blue Glacier: http://iahs.info/redbooks/a054/054039.pdf Notes on the film: This appears to be more of a chronicle of the construction of the tunnel than any particular experiment. It appears that the researchers were interested in analyzing a transect of the glacier at a place where the glacier was steep--the icefall--so they could walk along the floor of a tunnel instead of having to lower themselves down a vertical ice face. The final shots appear to be of the glacier's base where it is moving across the bedrock; one of the darker shots appears to show a person climbing up the rock in a gap between the bedrock and the glacier. :41 dumping ice tailings formed in the creation of the tunnel 1:05 This may be pneumatic hose, though it is strange to be a vertical drop--perhaps some other measurement is going on here. 2:16 using a pneumatic chisel to carve away ice at the base of the glacier 2:58 this appears to be the base of the glacier; rocks have been embedded and frozen into the ice in a process called plucking. Ed Waddington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences: Your video footage was designed to demonstrate that glacier ice flows slowly like a viscous fluid (e.g. the tunnel that closes up in time-lapse footage), and the ice also slides across the bedrock (which has been polished smooth by rocks carried in the ice), and opens cavities where it slides over ledges |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Glaciology--Field work
Blue Glacier (Jefferson County, Wash.)
West Peak (Mount Olympus, Jefferson County, Wash.)
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| Genres (LCSH) | Science films
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Film clips
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State) |
| Date Created | 1967 |
| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Special Collections Moving Image Collection |
| Order Number | MV0110 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | University of Washington Audio Visual Services Materials Library, 94-4, VC 40 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital streaming QuickTime video file made from DVCAM master, by Special Collections at UW Media Center, Odegaard Library, on April 7, 2010, using Quick Time, version 7.6 |
| Rights | Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the repository for details |
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