The Tidewater Glacier Cycle (IMAGE)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Tidewater Glacier Cycle

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Illustration by Meghan Murphy This illustration shows a tidewater glacier slowly advancing on a sediment pile. The melting glacier terminus eventually begins to erode the sediment pile. That undercuts the ice's support and triggers a rapid collapse, in a process explained by a new model developed by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher.

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Illustration by Meghan Murphy

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