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Science 30 March 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5820, pp. 1803 - 1804
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140766
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Ice Sheet Stability and Sea-Level Rise

John B. Anderson

A wedge of sediments appears to stabilize the Whillans Ice Stream, suggesting that sea-level rise may not destabilize ice sheets as much as previously feared.

The author is in the Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA. E-mail: johna{at}rice.edu

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Sea levels: resolution and uncertainty.
R. Edwards (2007)
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