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Iceland Rising as Climate Change Causes Glaciers to Melt, Researchers Say
2015-01-29 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The crust under Iceland is rebounding as climate change melts the island's great ice caps, researchers report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The current rapid rising, or uplift, of the Icelandic crust is a result of accelerated melting of the island's glaciers and coincides with a regional warming trend that began roughly 30 years ago, the scientists said. Some areas in south-central Iceland are moving upward as much as 1.4 inches per year a surprisingly high speed, the researchers...
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