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Nature 394, 21-22 (2 July 1998) | doi:10.1038/27776

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Geophysics:  Ice on the fast track

Charles R. Bentley1

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has a purported ability to shrink rapidly, or 'collapse', causing a disastrous rise in sea level of some five metres1. But is it likely to do so?

  1. Charles R. Bentley is at the Geophysical and Polar Research Center, University of Wisconsin, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

    e-mail: Email: bentley@geology.wisc.edu