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Sudden draining of ice-dammed lakes in Spitsbergen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

M. J. Hambrey
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ

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