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    • Title Kangerdlugssuaq
    • Released 11/07/2011 11:12 am
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    • Description

      Two images of the Kangerdlugssuaq glacier in eastern Greenland from 1992 and 2011 show that the ice stream’s calving front has retreated by five kilometres in the past 19 years. Thinning in the ice steam and surrounding ice sheet is also evident.


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    • Activity Observing the Earth
    • Keywords Ice and snow , Glaciers

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