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  1. An epishelf lake is a rare body of water where a layer of fresh water floats directly on top of denser, connected ocean salt water, trapped in place by an ice shelf acting as a dam.
    #EarthScience #EnvironmentalScience #Glaciology #Hydrology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/es09102601.

  2. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon