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Rock debris protects glaciers from climate change more than previously known – techtoday19
IMAGE: Rock debris cover on glaciers in the Alaska Range. view more Credit: Sam Herreid A new study which provides a global estimate of rock cover on the Earth’s glaciers has revealed that the expanse of rock debris on glaciers, a factor that has been ignore…
IMAGE: Rock debris cover on glaciers in the Alaska Range.view more
Credit: Sam Herreid
A new study which provides a global estimate of rock cover on the Earth’s glaciers has revealed that the expanse of rock debris on glaciers, a factor that has been ignored in models of glacier melt and sea level rise, could be significant.
The Northumbria University study, which has been published in Nature Geoscience this week, is the first to manually verify the rock debris cover on every one of the Eart…
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