Not exact matches
In contrast to glaciers and
ice sheets, which sit on the ground, ground
ice sits in the ground, mixed with frozen
soil or buried
under layers of sediment.
Water seems to exist there only as
ice, in the polar
ice caps and perhaps
under the Martian
soil.
A lot of my plants have moss on top (I was tired of looking at the dirt), so the
ice goes
under the moss, otherwise too much of it evaporates before getting to the
soil.
; — changing of the composition of the
ice to the consistency of warm butter so that it is much more mobile; — isostatic rebound; — carbon release from
soils now
under the
ice sheets...