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Questions related to the solid phase of water.
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Is glacier growing a hoax?
Here, the slowed water would freeze and
pack into a glacier that would begin melting
when the sun rose high enough in spring to
expose the thick ice
... … each one provides some 6 million gallons (23,000 cubic meters) of water,
although there has been no accurate analysis to
date, and the undulating ground makes it difficult to guess the volume of ice …
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How deep is the permafrost in the Antarctic?
, active-layer dynamics and periglacial environments of continental Antarctica" South African Journal of Science 98. pages 82-90:
Only 25% of Antarctica has permafrost, as the material beneath thick ice … The deepest permafrost occurs where there is no ice sheet.
The deepest permafrost in the Antarctic is about 1000m. …
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Is this 70km crack in an ice shelf of Antarctica remarkable, or a regular occurrence?
1990 article The calving and drift of iceberg B-9 in the Ross Sea, Antarctica Antarctic Science Vol. 2 , pages 243-257 says:
The largest iceberg in recent times
(95 km x 95 km) calved from the Larsen Ice … Contribution of giant icebergs to the Southern Ocean freshwater flux says:
an iceberg of 10,000 km2 in area broke from the Amery ice shelf in 1964
According to Antarctica shed a 208-mile-long berg in …