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Sudden draining of glacial lakes explained

2015-06-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] 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 the cracks. Scientists had theorized that the sheer weight of the water in t…

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