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News Release 13-144
New drilling technique helps reveal the "plumbing" beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Research may affect the way scientists understand how ice sheets respond to climate change
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Drilling boreholes on the ice sheet. Starting boreholes required all field personnel to assist.
Credit: Joel Harper, University of Montana
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