Thursday, December 08, 2005

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Greenland glacier races to ocean

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Greenland glacier races to ocean: "Greenland glacier races to ocean
By Jonathan Amos
BBC News science reporter, San Francisco

Glacier (Hamilton/Maine)
Kangerdlugssuaq is 7km wide, 30km long and 1km deep
Scientists have been monitoring what they say may be the fastest moving glacier on the planet.

Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier on the east coast of Greenland has been clocked using GPS equipment and satellites to be flowing at a rate of 14km per year."

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