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The Glassiers - Coggle Diagram
The Glassiers
Causes
- Human activities are at the root of this phenomenon. Specifically, since the industrial revolution, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions have raised temperatures, even higher in the poles, and as a result, glaciers are rapidly melting, calving off into the sea and retreating on land.
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Definition
- Is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier flowing into the Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea, east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land.
the reasons
- Glaciers flow under their own weight, slowed by floating ice shelves, which act like dams for the grounded ice sheets behind, and by friction between grounded ice and the rock beneath.
- reducing the friction and allowing the glacier to flow more freely into the ocean.
- the weight holding the ice sheet against bedrock lightens and ocean water can get below the ice more easily
Consequences
- the water to rise by 60cm
- The melting of all the glaciers caused an increase in the level of the oceans of 2 meters 40
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- dramatic consequences for all of humanity
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Solutions
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- Combine artificial icebergs
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The problem
- pancake batter sliding around in too much oil—as it loses mass from both above and below
- ocean water is creeping in underneath and reducing the friction between the ice and the bedrock
- allowing it to slide freely over the water
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