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News Release 14-057

Frozen in time: Three-million-year-old landscape still exists beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

NSF-funded researchers say the massive ice sheet has fixed the landscape in place, rather than scouring it away

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A camp at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet

A camp at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet.

Credit: Paul Bierman, University of Vermont


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The ice edge meets the landscape in modern Greenland.

The ice edge meets the landscape in modern Greenland.

Credit: Paul Bierman, University of Vermont


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