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Undercutting of marine‐terminating glaciers in West Greenland

Marine‐terminating glaciers control most of Greenland's ice discharge into the ocean, but little is known about the geometry of their frontal regions. Here we use side‐looking, multibeam echo sounding observations to reveal that their frontal ice cliffs are grounded deeper below sea level than...

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Autores principales: Rignot, Eric, Fenty, Ian, Xu, Yun, Cai, Cilan, Kemp, Chris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31031446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064236