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. This work was funded by the Humanities and So...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Research
2023
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| Online Access: | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/350433 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.96959 |
| 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. This work was funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research Fund, Newcastle University (to C.L.B.) and the financial assistance (to F.D.W.C.) of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. |
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