Loss of floating glacier tongues from the Yelverton Bay region, Ellesmere Island, Canada

ABSTRACT A total of eight floating glacier tongues have shrunk in area by >85% from the Yelverton Bay region of Northern Ellesmere Island since 1959, with unusually large losses since 2005. To better understand the causes of these losses, this study undertakes the first examination of ice tongue...

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Published in:Journal of Glaciology
Main Authors: WHITE, ADRIENNE, COPLAND, LUKE
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.15
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143019000157