Underwater mapping reveals insights into melting of Antarctica’s ice shelves
New research documents never-seen-before shapes formed at the base of a West Antarctic ice shelf. An autonomous underwater vehicle found these features — including tear-shaped indents — exclusively in areas with higher melting rates by underlying warm ocean water. An ice shelf is a mass of glacial ice, fed from land by tributary glaciers, that floats in the sea…
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