Sediment plume (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science

Sediment plume

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As the lake filled, the water began to lift the glacier, carving a 25-kilometer-long tunnel beneath the ice, through which the water eventually burst into the world’s largest fjord, Scoresby Sound.

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Aslak Grinsted

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