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

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Title
Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability
Published in
Science, June 2018
DOI 10.1126/science.aao1447
Pubmed ID
29930133
Authors

Valentina R. Barletta, Michael Bevis, Benjamin E. Smith, Terry Wilson, Abel Brown, Andrea Bordoni, Michael Willis, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Marc Rovira-Navarro, Ian Dalziel, Robert Smalley, Eric Kendrick, Stephanie Konfal, Dana J. Caccamise, Richard C. Aster, Andy Nyblade, Douglas A. Wiens

Abstract

The marine portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) accounts for one-fourth of the cryospheric contribution to global sea-level rise and is vulnerable to catastrophic collapse. The bedrock response to ice mass loss, glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), was thought to occur on a time scale of 10,000 years. We used new GPS measurements, which show a rapid (41 millimeters per year) uplift of the ASE, to estimate the viscosity of the mantle underneath. We found a much lower viscosity (4 × 1018 pascal-second) than global average, and this shortens the GIA response time scale from tens to hundreds of years. Our finding requires an upward revision of ice mass loss from gravity data of 10% and increases the potential stability of the WAIS against catastrophic collapse.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 86 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 29%
Researcher 19 22%
Student > Master 10 12%
Professor 7 8%
Unspecified 7 8%
Other 18 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 51 59%
Unspecified 17 20%
Environmental Science 3 3%
Physics and Astronomy 3 3%
Chemistry 3 3%
Other 9 10%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 693. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 October 2018.
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#9,002
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Outputs from Science
#573
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#459
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#49
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