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Contact: Konrad Steffen
konrad.steffen@colorado.edu
303-492-4524
University of Colorado at Boulder

Jakobshavn Iceberg

Caption: An iceberg calved in the the Jakobshavn fjord in 2005. The Jakobshavn Glacier has sped up two-fold in the last decade as the result of melt water lubricating the glacier bed.

Credit: Konrad Steffen, University of Colorado at Boulder

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