I'm a science nut. I love science articles. If I read about something I look up more information on the Internet to find out all the details.
Today I read an article about a Lake in Chile that disappeared over the course of a few months. All of the scientists are up in arms about how it disappeared. There's been no earthquakes, so they cant imagine how fissures may have formed and allowed leakage of all the water. They are not yet sure there are fissures, but that's what they are researching at this point.
So I'm going to put out my educated guess. The fissures were there all along but they were blocked (or mostly blocked) by the glacier which has since melted to enough of a degree to really allow the water to start flowing, which hastened the melting and now all the water has run out.
We'll see what scientists come up with. Here's a link to one of the press stories.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19353905/
Kudos to MSNBC for the short URLs.
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