Slippery Science: The Physics of Ice
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Is It a Glacier or an Ice Tsunami?
It's not true that this water lubricates the flow of the glacier, it really does. It weakens the structure beneath so that it's collapsing. So think of it as like when you're making a if you have a little tunnel, but then the water itself is the drill that made the tunnel and you have more water coming through the tunnel. We're screwed people.
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