On the shelf

John VanDecar

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6669, 747-747

Abstract: Ice shelves are the floating parts of the huge ice sheets that cover the Earth's polar regions, and their stability is a matter of considerable interest. Two such sheets in the Antarctic are Larsen A and B. The first has collapsed, while the second is intact but retreating. New work involving finite-element computer modelling of the strain rates for these shelves indicates that if Larsen B shrinks by only a few more kilometres it too may disintegrate.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/35758

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