A map of the Antarctic Peninsula with the location of the the Wilkins Ice Sheet,
which is on the southern portion of the peninsula.
Credit: British Antarctic Survey
13 posted on
03/25/2008 11:08:39 AM PDT by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
I thought that you were talking about my ex, she was the Wilkins Ice Shelf!
26 posted on
03/25/2008 11:13:32 AM PDT by
Little Bill
(Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
To: NormsRevenge
Right now the argument about surface temperature versus sea temperature of circulating waters is still an issue to be resolved.
Warmer water melts shore ice and warms the air; warmer air melts surface ice and extends the shelf; clouds come, winter sets in and it snows a lot.
78 posted on
03/25/2008 12:22:19 PM PDT by
Old Professer
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