Greenland Glacier (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Greenland Glacier

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The trunk and terminus of Jakobshavn Isbræ, a large glacier in western Greenland that discharges into Ilulissat Fjord. While this outlet glacier and many others have experienced rapid acceleration over the last two decades, most of the ice sheet interior has decelerated over the last nine thousand years.

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Tim Bartholomaus

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