image: Aerial view of Crane Glacier eight years after the disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002. Perched ice terraces along the valley walls are evidence of recent thinning due to a 6-fold increase in flow speed following the ice shelf break-up. Photo taken in Feb. 2010. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 12 Sept. 12 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Rebesco at Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) in Borgo Grotta Gigante, Italy and colleagues was titled, 'Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Erin C. Pettit, University of Alaska Fairbanks]