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Mystery of Greenland's 'disappearing lakes' solved

2015-06-04 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Geoscientists have solved a decade-long mystery of how some of the large lakes that sit atop the Greenland ice sheet can completely drain billions of gallons of water in a matter of hours. In 2006, Greenland's North Lake, a 2.2 square-mile (5.6 square kilometers) supraglacial meltwater lake, drained almost 12 billion gallons of water in less than two hours. In a study published two years later, researchers determined that this astonishing phenomenon is possible because giant hydro-fractures (water-driven...

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