Significant contribution of Greenland’s peripheral glaciers to sea-level rise
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 18 March, 2013
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Glaciers at the edge of Greenland which are not connected to its huge ice sheet, or can be clearly separated from it, are contributing to sea-level rise much more than previously thought. Scientists have found that, though these peripheral glaciers make up just 5 to 7 percent of total ice coverage on the land mass, they account for up to 20 percent of the rise in sea level created by the region's melting....