Sentences with phrase «dramatic glacier acceleration»
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An additional new feature is the increasingly visible fast dynamic response of ice shelves, for example, the dramatic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheets.
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The ice mass itself moves at about four kilometers per year into the ocean, a dramatic acceleration of the glacier's natural role as an outlet channel for the Antarctic ice sheet.