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Past ice-shelf collapse in West Antarctica

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Images of the sea floor in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica, reveal impressive evidence that a massive ice-shelf break-up occurred before about 12,000 years ago, and point to a tidal influence on sea-floor features produced during deglaciation.

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Figure 1: Ice-shelf break-up.

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  1. Colm Ó Cofaigh is in the Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.,

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Cofaigh, C. Past ice-shelf collapse in West Antarctica. Nature 476, 290–291 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476290a

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