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A new classification scheme for ice shelves based on mechanisms of mass gain and loss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

David G. Vaughan
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

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