Feature Type

Feature Type Name

Icefall

Synonyms

Definition

The portion of a glacier at a point of steep descent, segmented by many transverse crevasses into separate blocks.

Comments

Table Name

ICEFALL

Australia's Implementation Table Names

  • ICEFALL_PY

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica Feature Class

13 - Ice cracks - Any kind of ice crack

The following have been used in the definition of this feature type

  • Kotlyakov, V.M. and Smolyarova, N.A., Elseviers dictionary of glaciology in four languages: English (with definitions, Russian (with definitions), French and German), 1990 .

The following have been used in categorising this feature type

  • Geography
  • Ice Features
Code Name Definition   Data type Values UoM Used by these Feature Types
1042 Dataset_Id An unique identifier of the dataset the feature belongs to Mandatory number(4)     Types
1045 Date_Capture The date the feature was captured Mandatory date     Types
1249 Date_Flag The type of date been stored, i.e.whether the date is approximate or definite, and for which component of the date is approximate or definite. Also includes seasons Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Appoximate day in a known month and year
Approximate month in a known year The entry must be a full date, e.g. 1/1/2002, but only the month and year are valid.
Approximate season of a known year The season must be an Antarctic summer, autumn, winter or spring season. Enter season date with the approximate date of the middle of the season. Eg for spring 2002, enter as 15/10/2002.
Approximate year The entry must be a full date, e.g. 1/1/2002, but only the year is valid.
Definite day, month and year
Definite month and year The entry must be a full date, e.g. 1/1/2002, but only the month and year are valid.
Definite season and year The season must be an Antarctic summer, autumn, winter or spring season. Enter season date with the approximate date of the middle of the season. Eg for spring 2002, enter as 15/10/2002.
Definite year The entry must be a full date, e.g. 1/1/2002, but only the year is valid.
Pre year The entry must be a full date, e.g. 1/1/2002, but only the year is valid. The data was sourced before the year listed.
Unknown Value indicating that an attribute is not applicable or that it is impossible to determine
  Types
1150 Q_Info An unique identifier pointing to additional data quality information not included in the metadata record. Mandatory number(5)     Types