New map reveals landscape beneath Greenland´s ice sheet
(WorldNews Africa)

14 December, 2017 Press releases A new map of what lies beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is published this week (Thursday 14 December 2017). By providing scientists with the most comprehensive, high resolution and accurate picture of the bedrock and coastal seafloor, it reveals how the glaciers that drain from the Greenland Ice Sheet will contribute to future sea-level rise. Produced by researchers at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Bristol and University of California at Irvine (UCI), the printed map is unveiled this week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans. `Greenland Basal Topography BedMachine v3` is the new 1:3,500,000 scale map created from data...