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Centuries of intense surface melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf
Adrian Luckman
Bryn Hubbard
Bernd Kulessa
David Ashmore
Peter Kuipers Munneke
Martin O'Leary
Adam Booth
Heidi Sevestre
Daniel McGrath
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