Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; Gordon Hamilton, 581-3446ORONO, Maine – Using nearly 50 years of data, University of Maine researchers have determined that subglacial floods in East Antarctica caused a rapid and short-lived acceleration of a major outlet glacier.Leigh Stearns and Gordon Hamilton of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, along with Benjamin Smith of the University
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