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Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss Comes From Underneath
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Calving front of an ice shelf in West Antarctica. The traditional view on ice shelves, the floating extensions of seaward glaciers, has been that they mostly lose ice by shedding icebergs. A new study by NASA and university researchers has found that warm ocean waters melting the ice sheets from underneath account for 55 percent of all ice shelf mass loss in Antarctica.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineAntarctic Ice Shelf Loss Comes From Underneath. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001453.
