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The Thwaites Glacier Tongue, or Western Glacier Tongue was a narrow, floating part of the glacier, located about 30 mi (48 km) east of Mount Murphy It was the first part of the glacier to be mapped, [ 1 ] based on 65,000 aerial photographs collected during Operation Highjump in 1947.
The Thwaites Ice Shelf is one of the biggest ice shelves in West Antarctica, though it is highly unstable and disintegrating rapidly. [2] [3] Since the 1980s, the Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the "Doomsday glacier", [4] has had a net loss of over 600 billion tons of ice, though pinning of the Thwaites Ice Shelf has served to slow the process. [5]
IKONOS satellite imagery of the New Guinean glaciers indicated that by 2002 only 2.1 km 2 (0.81 sq mi) glacial area remained, that in the two years from 2000 to 2002, the East Northwall Firn had lost 4.5%, the West Northwall Firn 19.4% and the Carstensz 6.8% of their glacial mass, and that sometime between 1994 and 2000, the Meren Glacier had ...
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Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse.
Much of the glacier and the sheet could be lost by the 23rd century, the BAS said. “Immediate and sustained climate intervention will have a positive effect, but a delayed one, particularly in ...
Some named Antarctic iceshelves. Ice shelf extending approximately 6 miles into the Antarctic Sound from Joinville Island. An ice shelf is "a floating slab of ice originating from land of considerable thickness extending from the coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a very gently sloping surface), resulting from the flow of ice sheets, initially formed by the accumulation of snow ...
Latest computer models predict that ice loss will accelerate through the 22nd century.