You know? I'm talking about the water that moves the glacier faster. It carries the glacier faster towards the ocean.
Some confined water under glaciers can be in a liquid form, but since it is under pressure it may not be able to freeze, although it is cold enough, until it is exposed to the outside atmospheric pressure.
This process can be observed if a pop can is placed in a freezer for a short time and then opened. The liquid in the can expands out of the top and ice crystals form in the process.
And the melt in Greenland seems to be traceable to volcanic activity not Co2 just like the arctic sea ice.
Greenland melt.
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Meltwater. It falls into holes called moulins and runs underneath the glacier, between the glacier and the land, thus lubricating the glacier flow.
? i wonder what keeps the caps still.......
70% of ice is underwater and ice displaces water..... it aint going to melt soon......unless the sun shines directly on the caps then you will not have significant melting!
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What is the water under the glacier called.? 
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