Water Channels Beneath Ice Shelves Responsible for Fractures and Shelf Weakening (4 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Water Channels Beneath Ice Shelves Responsible for Fractures and Shelf Weakening (4 of 9)

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Nansen Ice Shelf fracture six months prior to breaking off in 2016. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 13, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.F. Dow at University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Basal channels drive active surface hydrology and transverse ice shelf fracture."

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[Credit: C. Dow]

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