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Tampa scientists examined hundreds of feet chambers below the surface of Greenland Ice holes with the use of ropes. The frozen cave which is hundred feet below the surface of Greenland Ice sheet, save for an occasional blast or cracks disintegrating around the scientist s feet.
(Photo : Nick Bondarev)
Ray of light went through the opening, thereby brightening slivers of high blue walls. It s a Moulin, a gap that serves as a portal for meltwater, which descends under the surface. A 42years old Geology professor at University of South Florida, professor Jason Gulley studies these depths with other researchers with the hope to understand how the icy drainage system affects rising seas around the world.
Updated Feb. 16
The frozen cavern is a few hundred feet below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet and near-silent, save for an occasional boom or groan from cracks splintering in the distance or around the scientistsâ feet.
Shafts of light reach through the opening, brightening slivers of high blue walls.
This is a moulin, a yawning gap that serves as a portal for meltwater, which plunges under the surface. University of South Florida geology
professor Jason Gulley explores these depths with other researchers, hoping to understand how the icy drainage system affects rising seas around the world, including on vulnerable shores back home.
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