A Billion Tons of Ice Are Hiding Under Utah, Study Finds
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A Giant Frozen Secret Lies Beneath Utah: More Than A Billion Tons Of Ice, Says Report
Using gravity measurements and 3D modelling, researchers mapped ice beneath rock glaciers and found that these formations could represent an important but largely overlooked source of stored water.
Far from the vast white expanses that embody glaciers in the collective imagination, another family of ice formations thrives in the shadow. The rocky glaciers are indeed home to considerable masses of ice under their shell of rock and rubble. A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface has just encrypted these ... Read more The article A billion tons of ice hides under Utah appeared first on Fredzone.
Researchers used gravimeter measurements to map the vast ice reserves of rock-covered glaciers beneath Utah.
Utah’s Rock Glaciers May Harbor a Gigaton of Subterranean Ice
Scientists at the University of Utah have developed a novel measurement technique suggesting that the state’s rock glaciers may harbor up to a gigaton of ice. A gigaton equals a billion metric tons, a cubic kilometer, or 815,000 acre-feet of water. In fact, if estimates are correct, Utah’s rock glaciers represent about a third of the entire annual input of […]
Beneath the seemingly bare and rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos in Utah lies an impressive volume of ice. Scientists have determined that the glacier is about 83 percent ice and contains about 1.5 million cubic meters of frozen water, an amount equivalent to about 600 Olympic swimming pools.
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