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SUMMARY:Dynamics of marine ice sheets - Prof. Grae Worster
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CONTACT:Aleksandra Przydrozna
DESCRIPTION:Massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica flow slow
 ly under their own weight towards the ocean.  In many regions these ice sh
 eets flow along bedrock that is below sea level and\, once they are thin e
 nough\, detach from the bedrock to form floating ice shelves.  The stabili
 ty of the ice sheets is determined in part by the way they are buttressed 
 by their ice shelves and by the way they are lubricated at their base.  Mu
 ch can be learned about their dynamics from small-scale laboratory experim
 ents and simple fluid-mechanical theory\, which I shall describe.
LOCATION:LR3B\, Inglis Building\, CUED.
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