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Botany

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3. This is very well what the end of the world as we know it looks like.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:14 AM

Aug 2022

That water is glacial melt water that has flowed under the ice until it finds a weak point and comes to
the surface. God only knows how many millions/billions of gallons of water we are talking about here.

And as the sea levels rise salt water pushes inland and kill the trees and makes "ghost forests" like
the ones in N.J..

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Ever Hear Of A Glacial Upwelling? Me Neither, But This Is What One In Greenland Looks Like [View all] hatrack Aug 2022 OP

Greenland on the road to becoming a tropical paradise. Chainfire Aug 2022 #1

. . . hatrack Aug 2022 #2

This is very well what the end of the world as we know it looks like. Botany Aug 2022 #3

Fascinating mechanism - it's like a spring on land . . . hatrack Aug 2022 #4