Sentences with phrase «smaller icefields»
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Schaefer et al. state that there are four active volcanoes within the Southern Patagonian Icefield, which may be accounting for some additional basal melt, but that changes to mass balance from a high geothermal heat flux can only account for a very small additional mass loss.
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/
That nets to a tiny 0.005 mm per year contribution to sea level per year; but Patagonia's icefields are only a small component of global ice stocks.