How does ice flow?

Currently the yearly General Assembly of the European Geological Union takes place in Vienna, Austria. Dr Olaf Eisen from the German Alfred Wegener Institute presents results from an environmentally friendly measurement method that he and his colleagues used on an Antarctic ice-shelf for the first time in early 2010. It supplies data that are input to models for the ice mass balance and thus permit better forecasting of future changes in the sea level...

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