Shrinking Shelf and Faster Flow for Greenland Glacier (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Shrinking Shelf and Faster Flow for Greenland Glacier (2 of 3)

Caption

The setting sun paints a dramatic sky over icebergs in a fjord off west Greenland. UC Irvine glaciologists aboard the MV Cape Race in August 2014 mapped for the first time remote Greenland fjords and ice melt that is raising sea levels around the globe.

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[Maria Stenzel/for UC Irvine]

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