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A comprehensive synthesis of satellite data reveals that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost a combined 11,309 billion metric tons of ice between 1979 and 2023.
#EarthScience #PhysicalGeography #Climatology #Glaciology #Oceanography #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/es09162601.html

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

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

Aufeis (Earth sciences 🌍)

Aufeis is a sheet-like mass of layered ice that forms from successive flows of ground or river water during freezing temperatures. This form of ice is also called overflow, icings, or the Russian term, naled. The term "Aufeis" was first used in 1859 by Alexander von Middendorff following his observations of the phenomenon in northern Siberia. When t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufeis

#Aufeis #WaterIce #Glaciology #Lithosphere #EarthSciences #GeographyOfTheArctic

Aufeis (Earth sciences 🌍)

Aufeis is a sheet-like mass of layered ice that forms from successive flows of ground or river water during freezing temperatures. This form of ice is also called overflow, icings, or the Russian term, naled. The term "Aufeis" was first used in 1859 by Alexander von Middendorff following his observations of the phenomenon in northern Siberia. When t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufeis

#Aufeis #WaterIce #Glaciology #Lithosphere #EarthSciences #GeographyOfTheArctic

Discussions on #Ismip7 - the #IceSheet MIP for #CMIP7 at #IGSnorthumbria2024 this afternoon - it's an interesting process to go through (again). #SMB will be a part of it, but further discussions needed.
One things for sure, we as a #polarClimate #glaciology community are going to be busy...

Huronian glaciation (Glaciology 🗻)

The Huronian glaciation was a period where at least 3 ice ages occurred during the deposition of Huronian Supergroup. Deposition of this largely sedimentary succession extended from approximately 2.5 to 2.2 billion years ago, during the Siderian and Rhyacian periods of the Paleoproterozoic era. Evid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huronian_glaciation

#HuronianGlaciation #IceAges #Glaciology #ExtinctionEvents #PaleoproterozoicGeology #ProterozoicNorthAmerica