India, Jan. 6 -- The pattern of fractures in the ice of the Thwaites Glacier, which is the outflow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, show how the rest the Antarctic Ice Shelf could collapse in the future. The Thwaites Glacier, commonly known as the 'Doomsday Glacier' because of its potential to significantly add to worldwide sea levels, is one of the fastest changing ice-ocean systems on the planet. The complete melting of the glacier could add 65 cm to global sea levels.

A new research paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface provides a detailed account of the changes to the glacier and other features around it which provide us with a template for how other Antarctic ice features could collapse.

The paper pr...