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To: Eric who wrote (51459)	5/14/2014 1:51:05 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

It was on solid ground until warmer waters ate away at it's base and it started to melt inwards to the South Pole. Excuse me? The oceans have moved beneath the ice sheet now? Maybe moved below a glacier, but not the ice sheet Eric.. And we know that the water is beneath the ice shelves.. That's why they are called ice shelves, because they float on the water, while still connected to the ice sheet that lies onland and pushes them further out to sea because of their increasing mass. What you're trying to claim is that warm, saline, water is "creeping" up under the ice sheet, defying gravity as it moves uphill.. Really now? Ice sheets can melt, or they can accumulate even more mass and move towards the oceans. They cannot "collapse" any more than you can collapse through the ground you are standing on. Hawk