A great Operation Ice Bridge photo of the ice edge of the Humboldt Glacier in Greenland, with the ice-free area of Washington Land on the left. The ice edge of the Irish Sea Glacier in Pembrokeshire might not have looked very different -- with occasional temporary ice-margin lakes. Note that here the ice is relatively clean, with no prominent ice edge moraines....
From a report in the Guardian about the catastrophic rate of ice melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet
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