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So much water pulsed through a melting glacier that it warped the Earth’s crust

By Chris Mooney, The Washington Post May 26, 2017
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NASA scientists detected a pulse of melting ice and water travelling through a major glacier in Greenland that was so big that it warped the solid Earth – a surge equivalent in mass to 18,000 Empire State Buildings.

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