Aerial view of the eroding coast in front of Malaspina Glacier (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Aerial view of the eroding coast in front of Malaspina Glacier

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Vegetation growing atop massive ground ice – a crevassed forest – is seen in this aerial photo of the land strip that separates Malaspina Glacier from the Pacific Ocean. This coastal barrier "wastes away," the researchers say, as ice cliffs collapse and form a growing expanse of lagoons.

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Brandon Tober/University of Arizona

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