#glaciology — Public Fediverse posts
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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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/es09102601.html -
The growth and retreat of the Icelandic ice sheet over the past 230,000 years caused significant fluctuations in the seawater chemistry of the North Atlantic, specifically altering the isotopic composition of neodymium.
#EnvironmentalPhysics #Paleoceanography #Geochemistry #Glaciology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/es08202601.html -
Well that's a nice message to receive on a Friday afternoon, I feel like I should pack up for the weekend now. Except of course, the wheels of #science keep turning...
Congratulations to @agrinsted who did the vast majority of the work on our first #PRECISE_NNF paper
EDIT: To add a link in case you want to spend a quiet half hour reading about the fracture properties of ice