Originally Posted by
jmmoric
Yes and no.
I think the snow falls on the top of the inland ice, but the huge pressure from the kilometre thick layer of ice, presses it to the sides into the glaciers along the edge, here it melts. So there is a steady flow of ice deep below to the sides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlDseTBwUlM
This is one of the old DEW line radar stations still on the icecap, it was abandonned many years ago, and is slowly slipping into the ice.
Think this is irresponsible behavior by the military.
To just abandon a facility, warts and all, without restoring the site even minimally is just abusing the environment.
It is also very evident in Alaska, where abandoned military sites at Barrow and Nome are slowly rotting away.
In Greenland, at Camp Century, I believe there was a lot of debris and even nuclear waste just dumped on the ice, which is now resurfacing.