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Bottom-up restructuring of ice

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Water at the base of ice sheets can lead to faster ice flow. Radar sounding of the Greenland ice sheet reveals that refreezing of this water can also induce large changes in ice flow and structure.

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Figure 1: View of Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest outlet glaciers, from NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory.

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  1. Joseph A. MacGregor is at the Institute for Geophysics, Building 196, The University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758, USA,

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MacGregor, J. Bottom-up restructuring of ice. Nature Geosci 7, 481–482 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2191

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