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Rapid iceberg calving following removal of tightly packed pro-glacial mélange

Iceberg calving is a major contributor to Greenland’s ice mass loss. Pro-glacial mélange (a mixture of sea ice, icebergs, and snow) may be tightly packed in the long, narrow fjords that front many marine-terminating glaciers and can reduce calving by buttressing. However, data limitations have hampe...

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Autores principales: Xie, Surui, Dixon, Timothy H., Holland, David M., Voytenko, Denis, Vaňková, Irena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31324756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10908-4