Shelf ice illustration (IMAGE)

University of Gothenburg

Shelf ice illustration

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AThe focus of the research project is the 400-kilometre-long Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. An ice shelf is the outermost part of a glacier that has extended from the land into the sea, where it floats on the seawater – a floating glacier.

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Anna Wåhlin

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