Many scientists say that liquid water is a key to understanding the behavior of the frozen form found in glaciers. Melt water is known to lubricate their gravelly bases and hasten their march toward the sea. In recent years, researchers in Antarctica
Lead author Chloe Gustafson and mountaineer Meghan Seifert install geophysical instruments to measure groundwater below West Antarctica’s Whillans Ice Stream.
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The reservoir of groundwater (water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock) lies beneath the Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica, experts say.