How rapidly can ice sheets retreat? ...

Landforms across the mid-Norwegian seafloor reveal that a former ice sheet retreated at up to 600 metres per day at the end of the last Ice Age. Pulses of similarly rapid retreat could soon be observed across flat-bedded areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. ...

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Batchelor, Christine L, Christie, Frazer DW
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Research 2023
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.96959
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/350433
Description
Summary:Landforms across the mid-Norwegian seafloor reveal that a former ice sheet retreated at up to 600 metres per day at the end of the last Ice Age. Pulses of similarly rapid retreat could soon be observed across flat-bedded areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. ...