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Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5509-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5509-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
Research article
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10 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 10 Nov 2025

Ocean-induced weakening of George VI Ice Shelf, West Antarctica

Ann-Sofie P. Zinck, Bert Wouters, Franka Jesse, and Stef Lhermitte

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Short summary
Ocean-driven basal melting of ice shelves can carve channels into the ice shelf base. These channels represent potential weak areas of the ice shelf. On George VI Ice shelf we discover a new channel which onset coincides with the 2015 El-Nino Southern Oscillation event. Since the channel has developed rapidly and is located within a highly channelized area close to the ice shelf front it poses a potential thread of ice shelf retreat.
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