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Re: Greenland ‘Heinrich’ ice surge much more likley than thought

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There could be Tsunami waves up to 100m high -we know this has happened in the past because MIS6 solifluction deposits are missing (ie washed off) Atlantic facing headlands 


On Sunday, 23 October 2022 at 11:36:49 UTC+1, DESMODUS wrote:
> Heinrich ice surges event occur about every 15 Kyr and one is about due and in the past have raised sea level by meters in as many days (and also cause glacial inception) . Until recently the probability of the massive Greenland ice sheet causing one in the next 1 Kyr have been thought to be low . 
> However recent detailed studies of the rapidly melting Greenland ice surface have shown that the water flows that run into moulins are not freezing in winter but sitting in vast lakes warming and melting the ice above . 
> There probably won`t be much warning of when up to 100.000 cu Km of ice starts to slide into the N>Atlantic so it will be quite a RLF moment ! 
> 
> DESMODUS (we know that the last interglacial ended with a Heinrich event as in places there are massive ice rafted boulders dumped on +2m raised beaches and there are peat layers showing that parts of Greenland currently covered by ice had deglaciated )

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Greenland ‘Heinrich’ ice  surge much more likley than thought  DESMODUS <desmodus@uku.co.uk> - 2022-10-23 03:36 -0700
  Re: Greenland ‘Heinrich’ ice surge much more likley than thought DESMODUS <desmodus@uku.co.uk> - 2022-10-26 03:43 -0700
    Re: Greenland Heinrich ice surge much more likely than thought? Horus@solari.us - 2022-10-31 18:46 +0000

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