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Speedup and fracturing of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
T. O. Holt
Centre for Glaciology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK
N. F. Glasser
Centre for Glaciology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK
D. J. Quincey
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
M. R. Siegfried
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093, USA
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