image: The front of the Totten Ice Shelf. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.R. Rintou lat University of Tasmania in Hobart, TAS, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Ocean heat drives rapid basal melt of the Totten Ice Shelf." view more
Credit: Esmee van Wijk (CSIRO and ACE CRC)