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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.
Credit: Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
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The ice edge meets the landscape in modern Greenland.
Credit: Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
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