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Landsat 8 image depicting the ice shelf in the highly dynamic SCAR Inlet, the Antarctic Peninsula, and offshore sea ice production. Credit: NASA/USGS,
Newcastle UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2023 - Ice sheets can retreat up to 600 metres a day during periods of climate warming, 20 times faster than the highest rate of retreat previously measured. An international team of researchers, led
During periods of climate warming, ice sheets can retreat up to 600 m per day, which is 20 times faster than the maximum rate of retreat ever documented.
Ice caps previously melted at a rapid rate at the end of the last Ice Age – about 20,000 years ago.
Ice sheets can retreat up to 600 metres a day during periods of climate warming, 20 times faster than the highest rate of retreat previously measured. An international team of researchers, led by Dr Christine Batchelor of Newcastle University, UK, used high-resolution imagery of the seafloor to reveal just how quickly a former ice sheet that extended from Norway retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, about 20,000 years ago. The team, which also included researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Loughborough in the UK and the Geological Survey of Norway, mapped more than 7,600 sm...