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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Language: | English |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1773/43830 |