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Greenland without its ice sheet
On October 21, 2011
The Greenland ice sheet (GISh) is 2,500 km north-south, 1,000 km east-west, 3 km thick, and covers almost 2 million square kilometers (or 80% of the island). Because of the weight of GISh, the continental lithosphere is depressed in an elastic motion. If the GISh were to be removed, the lithosphere would rise in reaction. This rebounding process is known as isostasy and in [...]
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