Past ice-shelf collapse in West Antarctica

Colm Ó Cofaigh ()
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Colm Ó Cofaigh: Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.

Nature, 2011, vol. 476, issue 7360, 290-291

Abstract: Images of the sea floor in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica, reveal impressive evidence that a massive ice-shelf break-up occurred before about 12,000 years ago, and point to a tidal influence on sea-floor features produced during deglaciation.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1038/476290a

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