One Of Our Lakes Is Missing!

[athelind]

Glacial Lake Vanishes in Southern Chile

Thursday, June 21, 2007

(06-21) 01:03 PDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) --

A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared — and scientists want to know why.

Park rangers at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park said they found a 100-feet-deep crater in late May were the lake had been in March. Several large pieces of ice that used to float atop the water also were spotted.

"The lake had simply disappeared," Juan Jose Romero, head of Chile's National Forest Service in the southernmost region of Magallanes, said Wednesday. "No one knows what happened."

A group of geologists and other experts will be sent to the area 1,250 miles southeast of Santiago in the next few days to investigate, Romero said.

One theory is the water disappeared through cracks in the lake bottom into underground fissures. But experts do not know why the cracks would have appeared because there have been no earthquakes reported in the area recently, Romero said.

A river that flowed out of the lake was reduced to a trickle.

What could have caused this?

Could the secrets be lost in the annals of that venerable organization, the Junior Woodchucks?



Hey, it's been hot lately. Sometimes, you just want a nice, cold drink.

Comments

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

You ate an entire lake?!

(notes that he has the first appearance of the Junior Woodchucks comic by Carl Barks)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Technically, one DRINKS a lake.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Depends on how many fish and vegetation there is :)

I mean, the right lake would be very much like having a bowl of Vietnamese bun (i think is the name)

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Pho?

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

yes, thanks. I haven't been in a vietnamese restaurant for two or more years now.

Must correct that. Beef with lemongrass pho.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Wow, around here, you see signs for "Pho" as often as you do for "Tacos", "Sushi", and "Burgers".

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Well, the only good places I knew were in Orlando, didn't know of any good ones in FTL area though I'm sure there were some.

Now I live 50 miles north of Atlanta in very small town type area. We got chinese and italian. Probly some Vietnamese restaurants down where I work though.

I got mountains now, so all is good.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised at how readily available it is here. Maybe I'm just learning where to look.

Damn, now I want some. Maybe t'morrow...

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Go seek thee some.

Me, I like the beef brisket stuff, but sometimes meatballs are nice too.

It must have lime, and some of the little chile peppers. Or failing that, about a marble's worth of Sriracha.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

You must have been hitting the spicy foods again...

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

oh, just got the Legend of Grimjack Vol. 7 - they're up to the first death of GJ in the TPBs - nice not having to dig my single issues out now ;)

[bfdragon.livejournal.com]

And have a nice sprawl out afterwards };->

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

*Snirksnirks! and rubs a belly*

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

And here I was going to take credit for it. ;) Well played sir Snark, well played.

[xylen.livejournal.com]

*checks his invoice for the 5000 tons of Country Time Lemonade mix*

*burp* Heh, scuse me. :)