Past ice-shelf collapse in West Antarctica

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Images of the sea floor in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica, reveal impressive evidence that a massive ice-shelf break-up occurred before about 12,000 years ago, and point to a tidal influence on sea-floor features produced during deglaciation.

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v476/n7360/full/476290a.html
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18/08/2011