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Antarctic ice sheet: definitions and description

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Publication status:: Published
Author(s):: Vaughan, David G
Editor(s):: Riffenburgh, B.
Date:: 26 October, 2011
Journal/Source:: Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, New York, Routledge: 56-59

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