moulins

No question the ice is melting and rivers and melt water are literally carving deep holes called moulins into the ice, and some scientists think that could be a very bad thing.

CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009 2009

And rivers of meltwater are literally carving deep holes, called moulins, into the ice, and some scientists think that could be a very bad thing.

CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009 2009

It turns out that those lakes can force open cracks in the ice below, called moulins, and then suddenly drain down them — in the 2006 case, the peak water flow would have been greater than three Niagara Falls.

Of Greenland, Instant Niagaras and Climate Wars - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The mechanism for the Greenland disaster is that summer warming creates rivers, called moulins, that descend into the ice cap, lubricating a rapid collapse and raising sea levels by 20 feet in the next 90 years.

Our Climate Numbers Are a Big Old Mess Patrick Michaels 2008

It's creating rivers of melt water that carve deep holes in the ice called moulins (ph).

CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008 2008

It turns out that those lakes can force open cracks in the ice below, called moulins, and then suddenly drain down them — in the 2006 case, the peak water flow would have been greater than three Niagara Falls.

Of Greenland, Instant Niagaras and Climate Wars - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Ian Joughin/University of Washington The surface of Greenland's glaciers is crisscrossed by vast fissures called moulins that can serve as drains, channeling floods of summer melt water to lubricate the underside of the ice flows and accelerate their breakup.

Flotsam Science 2008

"And some of the liquid water will drain into the glaciers through cracks and vertical passages, called moulins, reaching the bedrock below and lubricating the ice sheet."

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

It's creating rivers of melt water that carve deep holes in the ice called a moulins (ph).

CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007 2007

It's creating rivers of melt water that carve deep holes in the ice called a moulins (ph).

CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2007 2007