Glacial Ice Stream Bed Controls Its Flow and Demise (2 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Glacial Ice Stream Bed Controls Its Flow and Demise (2 of 6)

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Boulder near Cape Wrath Lighthouse, NW Scotland, deposited by the retreating British Ice Sheet 24,000 years ago. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 24th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Bradwell at University of Stirling in Stirling, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Ice-stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength."

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Tom Bradwell

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