Map of Pathways Leading under Glacier (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Map of Pathways Leading under Glacier

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This figure shows the landscape beneath Totten Glacier. The orange arrows indicate gateways under the ice where warm water could be entering. The red lines indicate a three-mile-wide trough where the warm water could be pooling below the ice.

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Jamin Greenbaum

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