Trapped Water Exploding: Jökulhlaup and Glacial Flash Floods

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Glaciers conceal a growing danger as global warming accelerates their retreat. Enormous volumes of water can become trapped and be released suddenly, generating flash floods that could become increasingly frequent. Beneath the glacier, volcanic heat accumulates water until the pressure breaks through the ice barrier, causing a flash flood. Regions near glaciers are dominated by ice, rock, and silence. However, beneath this apparent calm, enormou…