Glacial Ice Stream Bed Controls Its Flow and Demise (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Glacial Ice Stream Bed Controls Its Flow and Demise (1 of 6)

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Icebergs calved from the front of a large rapidly retreating North Atlantic glacier. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 24th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Bradwell at University of Stirling in Stirling, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Ice-stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength."

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Tom Bradwell

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