Glaciers Might be Gentle Giants (8 of 26) (IMAGE)

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Glaciers Might be Gentle Giants (8 of 26)

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This image shows sampling silty basal ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet near Kangerlussuaq. This image relates to a paper that appeared in 17 April, 2014, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Paul R. Bierman at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., and colleagues was titled, "Preservation of a Preglacial Landscape Under the Center of the Greenland Ice Sheet."

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[Credit: Paul Bierman, University of Vermont]

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