Meltwater Channels (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Meltwater Channels

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Meltwater carves channels in the Greenland Ice Sheet before draining into moulins, deep conduits that carry meltwater to the bottom of the ice sheet. Pictured are Matthew Hoffman of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Blaine Morriss of Dartmouth College.

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Lauren Andrews

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