Soil Meets Glacier (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Soil Meets Glacier

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University of Oregon postdoctoral researcher Colin Meyer reaches with an ice axe to frozen sediment beneath a glacier in Alaska. Meyer and colleagues have designed a theoretical approach to account for how different soil conditions at the base of glaciers impact their sliding speeds.

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