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According to the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers discovered the disappearance of the lake through satellite images showing the before and after of the strange event that occurred in 2019.
It is estimated that about 600 to 750 million meters of fresh water were dumped into the ocean while scientists are still not sure how the lake disappeared in such a short time.
Now, the most likely scenario is that the bottom collapsed due to the huge pressure.
"We believe that the weight of the water that had accumulated in this deep lake opened a crack in the ice sheet beneath the lake, causing water to escape into the ocean below," said Roland Warner, lead author. of studying.
This lake is located in the Emery ice dam where the ice at this point is more than 1,400 meters thick.
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