Underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet: slower underground seismic wave speed is associated with hotter areas (IMAGE)

Swansea University

Underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet: slower underground seismic wave speed is associated with hotter areas

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Underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet: slower underground seismic wave speed is associated with hotter areas. a) Rayleigh wave speed 4km beneath the ice, measured at different seismic stations; red is slower. b) Geothermal heat flux model of Greenland; yellow is hotter (attributed to Martos et al. 2018, Geophys. Res. Lett, 45, 8214-8222).

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Swansea University

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