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Shear-Zone Fractures Presage the Disintegration of Thwaites Eastern
Ice Shelf
Author : stevenjgarner
Score : 3 points
Date : 2025-12-23 17:46 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| stevenjgarner wrote:
| Satellite imagery and GPS observations yielded two key insights:
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| 1) fractures occurred in two stages: the initial propagation of
| long fractures parallel to ice flow, followed by smaller
| fractures perpendicular to ice flow.
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| 2) the shear-zone disintegration causes upstream ice-flow speed
| to increase on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf.
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