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Greenland's Snow Hides 100 Billion Tons of Water

2013-12-23 07:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Big surprises still hide beneath the frozen surface of snowy Greenland. Despite decades of poking and prodding by scientists, only now has the massive ice island revealed a hidden aquifer. In southeast Greenland, more than 100 billion tons of liquid water soaks a slushy snow layer buried anywhere from 15 to 160 feet (5 to 50 meters) below the surface. This snow aquifer covers more than 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) -- an area bigger than West Virginia -- researchers report today...

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