Researchers expose the dirty secrets hidden under glaciers

Monday, September 3, 2018 - 12:47 in Earth & Climate

University of Oregon researchers have found a way to account for how varying sediments underneath the world’s glaciers control how fast glaciers slide. Their new theory, introduced in a paper on bed strength in the journal Nature Communications, inserts a heavy dose of physics into a long-used methodology and accounts for what the team calls […]

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