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...
Published in: | Frontiers in Earth Science |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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Language: | English |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/78127 https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00065 |