Englacial Warming Indicates Deep Crevassing in Bowdoin Glacier, Greenland
All around the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet, marine-terminating glaciers have recently thinned and accelerated. The reduced basal friction has yielded increased flow velocity, while the rate of longitudinal stretching has been limited by ice viscosity, which itself critically depends on temper...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/409269 https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000409269 |