Sudden draining of glacial lakes explained
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jun 09, 2015 -
In 2008 scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and
the University of Washington documented for the first time how the icy
bottoms of lakes atop the Greenland Ice Sheet can crack open
suddenly--draining the lakes completely within hours and sending
torrents of water to the base of the ice sheet thousands of feet below.
Now they have found a surprising mechanism that triggers ...
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