May 27, 2024
How rapidly can ice sheets retreat?

How rapidly can ice sheets retreat?

Nature, Published online: 05 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00916-2

Landforms across the mid-Norwegian sea floor reveal that a former ice sheet retreated at up to 600 metres per day at the end of the last ice age. Pulses of similarly rapid retreat could soon be observed across flat-bedded areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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