Experimental modelling of the growth of tubular ice brinicles from brine flows under sea ice
We present laboratory experiments on the growth of a tubular ice structure surrounding a plume of cold brine that descends under gravity into water with a higher freezing point. Brinicles are geological analogues of these structures found under sea ice in the polar regions on Earth. Brinicles are hy...
| Published in: | The Cryosphere |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2024
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/356091 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2195-2024 |
| Summary: | We present laboratory experiments on the growth of a tubular ice structure surrounding a plume of cold brine that descends under gravity into water with a higher freezing point. Brinicles are geological analogues of these structures found under sea ice in the polar regions on Earth. Brinicles are hypothesized to exist in the oceans of other celestial bodies, and being environments rich in minerals, serve a potentially analogous role as an ecosystem on icy-ocean worlds to that of submarine hydrothermal vents on Earth. This research has been supported by the Consejería de Economía, Innovación, Ciencia, y Empleo, Junta de Andalucía (grant no. AND21_IACT_M2_058) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (grant no. 80NM0018D0004). The article processing charges for this open-access publication were covered by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI). Peer reviewed |
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