Lake Bottom, Raised Up (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Lake Bottom, Raised Up

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Glaciologist Sarah Das stands atop a block of ice that was raised up 6 meters by the sudden drainage of a meltwater lake in Greenland. The block sits in the mile of what was once a 5.6 sq. km lake.

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Courtesy of Sarah Das, WHOI

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