Study: ‘glaciers don’t need periods of warming to trigger retreat’

A new model yields insights into glaciers’ retreats and advances, shows cyclic nature of tidewater glaciers From the UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS via Eurekalert A University of Alaska Fairbanks study looking at the physics of tidewater glaciers has yielded new insights into what drives their retreat-and-advance cycles and the role that climate plays in these…

Source: Study: ‘glaciers don’t need periods of warming to trigger retreat’

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