Warming, not Instability, Caused Ice Sheet Collapse (6 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Warming, not Instability, Caused Ice Sheet Collapse (6 of 6)

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Aerial view of Crane Glacier eight years after the disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002. Perched ice terraces along the valley walls are evidence of recent thinning due to a 6-fold increase in flow speed following the ice shelf break-up. Photo taken in Feb. 2010. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 12 Sept. 12 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Rebesco at Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) in Borgo Grotta Gigante, Italy and colleagues was titled, 'Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica.'

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[Credit: Erin C. Pettit, University of Alaska Fairbanks]

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