Sentences with phrase «control glacier flow»
Ice shelves are important because they help control glacier flow; removal of ice shelves causes rapid glacier acceleration and calving.
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Changes in mass, rather than height, control how the ice shelves and associated glaciers flow into the ocean,» Paolo said.
Pritchard points out that basal melt is a control on total mass waste ``... through a reduction in buttressing of the adjacent ice sheet leading to accelerated glacier flow.»