image: Geologist James Smith (with the British Antarctic Survey) sampling an erratic boulder on Maish Nunatak. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 21, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.S. Johnson at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Rapid Thinning of Pine Island Glacier in the Early Holocene." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Florian Wobbe, Alfred Wegener Institute]