Helheim Glacier (IMAGE)

Rutgers University

Helheim Glacier

Caption

The calving face of Helheim Glacier, southeastern Greenland, has lost its protective ice shelf and is vulnerable to marine ice-cliff instability.

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Professor Knut Christianson/University of Washington

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