Quaternary grounding-line fluctuations in Antarctica

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2019 The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be prone to rapid collapse under climates warmer than today due to a dynamic instability at the grounding line, where the ice sheet goes afloat over seawater. However, there is to-date no conclusive evidence that the ice...

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Main Author: Hillebrand, Trevor Ray
Other Authors: Stone, John O.H.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1773/43830