Images of the sea floor in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica, reveal impressive evidence that a massive ice-shelf break-up occurred before about 12,000 years ago, and point to a tidal influence on sea-floor features produced during deglaciation.
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Cofaigh, C. Past ice-shelf collapse in West Antarctica. Nature 476, 290–291 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476290a
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