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  <dc:contributor>K.F. Mullins</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>A.L. Allison</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Jane G. Ferrigno</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Baerbel K. Lucchitta</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1993</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We measured the velocities of six glacier tongues and a few tongues within ice shelves distributed around the Antarctic coastline by determining the displacement of crevasse patterns seen on sequential Landsat images. The velocities range from less than 0.2 km a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sup"&gt;−1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;for East Antarctic ice-shelf tongues to more than 2.5 km a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sup"&gt;−1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;for the Thwaites Glacier Tongue. All glacier tongues show increases in velocity toward their distal margins. In general, the tongues of glaciers draining the West Antarctic ice sheet have moved significantly faster than those in East Antarctica. This observation may be significant in light of the hypothesized possible disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3189/S0260305500013100</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Cambridge University Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Antarctic glacier-tongue velocities from Landsat images: First results</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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