The appearance of such lakes due to global warming.
On the surface of the glaciers of Antarctica be thousands of fresh blue lakes, which are formed from melted under the rays of the sun ice.
According to scientists in an article published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the appearance of such lakes due to global warming and indicates the beginning of the death of the glacier.
A few years ago, such processes were observed in Greenland, then the melt water seeped into the cracks and microcracks, to study the glacier and contributed to the slide parts in a total collapse. This led to the fact that the Greenland glaciers were to melt at an ever-increasing pace and lost from 2011 to 2014, more than a trillion tons of mass.
Now these lakes are multiplying on the surface of the glacier Langhovde off the East coast of Antarctica. According to scientists, the total number of lakes that were formed in the summer seasons 2000-2013, reached eight thousand. The number of channels left by meltwater on the surface amounted to 855, and they went to a depth of more than 18 kilombero from the edge of the glacier.
According to scientists, the Parallels between the development processes of the melting of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica suggest that the process of melting and dripping of ice they will take on a similar scenario.
