Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability

An article published in Science analyzed GPS station data collected around the West Antarctica to report a rapid uplift of the Amundsen Sea Embayment in response to ice mass loss during the recent decades. This suggests that as ice mass is lost, the crust rebounds much faster than previously expected (thought to occur on a time scale of 10,000 years) stabilizing the ice sheet against catastrophic collapse.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6395/1335

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