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Antarctic Earthquakes Shake at Glacial Speed (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) |
Wide rivers of ice, called ice streams, flow through relatively slow-moving polar ice sheets, en route to the sea. Glaciologists had assumed that ice streams just creep steadily along-until one was recently shown to pack a powerful one-two punch, generating seismic waves twice a day.
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