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Researchers Find Major West Antarctic Glacier Melting from Geothermal Sources
Description: Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat researchers report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings significantly change the understanding of conditions beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet where accurate information has previously been unobtainable. [Source: University of Texas at Austin]
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/06/10/antarctic-glacier-melting
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Source: University of Texas at Austin
Publish Date: 6/10/2014
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