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Associated Press: The rate of icebergs breaking off from Alaska's Columbia Glacier will significantly slow within eight years, according to a new study.
Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder used a computer model that indicated the tidewater glacier by 2020 will retreat to a new, stable position in shallower water. The glacier, the study said, will achieve "dynamic equilibrium," where the rate of ice accumulation equals the rate of ice ablation, or ice removal.
That should slow the dramatic discharge......
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Study predicts fewer icebergs from Alaska glacier
Posted by Associated Press: Dan Joling on November 27th, 2012
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