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- Thwaites_Glacier abstract "Thwaites Glacier (75°30′S 106°45′W) is an unusually broad and fast Antarctic glacier flowing into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea, east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. Its surface speeds exceed 2 km/yr near its grounding line, and its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km east of Mount Murphy. It was named by ACAN for Fredrik T. Thwaites, a glacial geologist, geomorphologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Thwaites Glacier drains into West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea and is being closely watched for its potential to raise global sea levels.Along with Pine Island Glacier, Thwaites Glacier has been described as part of the "weak underbelly" of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, due to its apparent vulnerability to significant retreat. This hypothesis is based on both theoretical studies of the stability of marine ice sheets and recent observations of large changes on both of these glaciers. In recent years, the flow of both of these glaciers has accelerated, their surfaces have lowered, and their grounding lines have retreated.In 2011, using geophysical data collected from flights over Thwaites Glacier (data collected under NASA's Ice Bridge campaign), a study by scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory showed a rock feature, a ridge 700 meters tall that helps anchor the glacier and actually helped slow the glacier's slide into the sea. The study also confirms the importance of seafloor topography in predicting how these glaciers will behave in the near future.".
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- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageOutDegree "29".
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageRevisionID "676689823".
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Advisory_Committee_on_Antarctic_Names.
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- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Bear_Peninsula.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Category:Glaciers_of_Marie_Byrd_Land.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ice_streams_of_Antarctica.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Category:West_Antarctica.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Geomorphology.
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- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Ice_calving.
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- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Marie_Byrd_Land.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Mount_Murphy.
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- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Highjump.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Pine_Island_Bay.
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- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Professor_emeritus.
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- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Geological_Survey.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Wisconsin–Madison.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink Walgreen_Coast.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink West_Antarctica.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink File:Amundsen_Sea_Icebergs.jpg.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLink File:Thwaits_Glacier.jpg.
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thwaites Glacier".
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thwaites Glacier#Thwaites Glacier Tongue".
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thwaites Glacier#Thwaites Iceberg Tongue".
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thwaites Ice Tongue".
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thwaites Iceberg Tongue".
- Thwaites_Glacier wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thwaites".
- Thwaites_Glacier hasPhotoCollection Thwaites_Glacier.
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- Thwaites_Glacier subject Category:Glaciers_of_Marie_Byrd_Land.
- Thwaites_Glacier subject Category:Ice_streams_of_Antarctica.
- Thwaites_Glacier subject Category:West_Antarctica.
- Thwaites_Glacier point "-75.5 -106.75".
- Thwaites_Glacier type Landform.
- Thwaites_Glacier type SpatialThing.
- Thwaites_Glacier comment "Thwaites Glacier (75°30′S 106°45′W) is an unusually broad and fast Antarctic glacier flowing into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea, east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. Its surface speeds exceed 2 km/yr near its grounding line, and its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km east of Mount Murphy. It was named by ACAN for Fredrik T.".
- Thwaites_Glacier label "Thwaites Glacier".
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs Glacier_de_Thwaites.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs Ghiacciaio_Thwaites.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs Thwaitesbreen.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs Glaciar_Thwaites.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs m.084j1f.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs 6626717.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs Q7799533.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs Q7799533.
- Thwaites_Glacier sameAs 思韋茨冰川.
- Thwaites_Glacier lat "-75.5".
- Thwaites_Glacier long "-106.75".
- Thwaites_Glacier wasDerivedFrom Thwaites_Glacier?oldid=676689823.
- Thwaites_Glacier depiction Thwaits_Glacier.jpg.
- Thwaites_Glacier isPrimaryTopicOf Thwaites_Glacier.