Search results for: collapse of marine ice sheets

Antarctic tipping points

Publication 1 June, 2023

…Shackleton Ice Shelves may collapse due to water in cracks within the next 70 or so years (Gilbert and Kittle, 2021). The recent collapse of the Conger Ice Shelf in…

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Larsen C Ice Shelf

Publication 30 June, 2022

…in area, the new iceberg represents more than 10% of the ice shelf. The block of ice is about 190 metres thick, with about 30 metres sitting above the sea…

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Antarctica’s hidden lakes

Publication 30 June, 2022

…Lake Vostok under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, to small ephemeral waterbodies at the ice sheet margins and under fast-flowing ice streams. The water beneath the ice remains liquid because…

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Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Publication 12 September, 2014

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Record of a Mid-Pleistocene depositional anomaly in West Antarctic continental margin sediments: an indicator for ice-sheet collapse?

Publication 1 January, 2009

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Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

Publication 1 January, 2012

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An analytical derivation of ice-shelf basal melt based on the dynamics of meltwater plumes

Publication 1 April, 2019

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