Five of the six large glaciers that once fed into Antarctica’s Larsen A ice shelf have sped up significantly since that floating ice mass collapsed and drifted away in January 1995, scientists report.
COLD CLIFF. A fresh ice terrace (arrow), one of many rimming the edge of Antarctica’s Sjögren Glacier, indicates that the ice stream’s center (foreground) is surging coastward and thinning much faster than the sluggish ice along its edges.
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