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It is located near the Vestfold Hills, on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, roughly 20 km (12 miles) from the edge of the continental ice sheet.
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New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
Scientists had previously observed faint electrical activity in colliding glaciers or stressed ice sheets.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Not with a whimper but with a siren wail that long ago converted to white noise in our collective hearing; a global tinnitus like the hum of a fridge; the quiet roar of the Greenland ice sheet slipping into the Musk Ocean.
—Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
In our rather cold recent geologic past, ice sheets may have helped hold Earth in the balance.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
Scientists had previously observed faint electrical activity in colliding glaciers or stressed ice sheets.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Not with a whimper but with a siren wail that long ago converted to white noise in our collective hearing; a global tinnitus like the hum of a fridge; the quiet roar of the Greenland ice sheet slipping into the Musk Ocean.
—Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
In our rather cold recent geologic past, ice sheets may have helped hold Earth in the balance.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Ice sheet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20sheet. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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