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A long-standing mystery of glacial lake floods solved – Tech Explorist
The glacier can contain smaller bodies of water above the lakes fed by summer melting. If this water body is hydraulically connected to the lake then the pressure…
A long-standing mystery of glacial lake involves floods or “jokulhlaups” that emerge suddenly and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps. Scientists have long studied the development of these floods, which are some of the largest on Earth.
These floods affect the motion of some glaciers and are a significant hazard in Iceland. And the mechanism and timing of the initiation of these floods have not been understood.
A new study led by the University of Hawai’i at Mnoa astrobiologist and earth scientist…
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