The Florida-sized glacier could have a major impact on sea levels, and scientists say the rate at which it's melting could rapidly increase in the coming years.
of having so much additional water added to the Earth's oceans, sparking its nickname of the"doomsday glacier."
the University of South Florida, whose marine geophysicist Alastair Graham led the study, it"provides a kind of crystal ball" into Thwaites' future.Looking at 160 parallel ridges that the glacier created as it retreated and moved along the ocean floor, scientists found that the glacier's recently tracked rate of retreat is slower than what it's been at times in the past. Over the course of 5.
Images created by researchers show how the melting of the Thwaites glacier creates ribbed parallel lines along the sea floor that serve as indicators for the rate of its erasure."Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails," study co-author and British Antarctic Survey marine geophysicist Robert Larter said in a.
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