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Under-Ice Flood Speeds Up Glacier

Posted November 18, 2008 8:54 AM

From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:

Great floods beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can now be linked directly to the speed at which that ice moves towards the ocean, scientists say. Leigh Stearns and colleagues have been able show how the giant Byrd Glacier in east Antarctica sped up just as two lakes under the ice overflowed. The flood water acts as a lubricant, easing the ice over the bedrock.

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11/19/2008 4:47 AM

Perhaps the BBC need to be advised that all Glaciers actually move down the slope they rest on, by the lubrication by the meltwater between the ice and the base rock.

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