Rainy days make glaciers move and shake
By Alka Tripathy-Lang and Wendy Bohon
January 6, 2020
It is the growth of cavities at the ice-rock interface that is driving crevasse growth at the glacier’s surface. Lagging behind the zone of cavitation is an increase in seismicity characteristic of crevasse growth—icequakes.
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