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We fought far under the living earth, where time is not counted. Ever he clutched me, and ever I hewed him, till at last he fled into dark tunnels. They were not made by Durin's folk, Gimli son of Glóin. Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will bring no report to darken the light of day. In that despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways of Khazad-dûm: too well he knew them all. Ever up now we went, until we came to the Endless Stair.

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Fricker is a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. Ice sitting above a lake, she noticed, rises as the lake fills, then falls as it empties. To measure this up-and-down motion, she analyzed data from satellites. The spacecraft shine laser beams onto the ice, then time how long it takes that light to reflect back up. The ice can move up and down by as much as 10 meters (about 33 feet) over a couple of years, she found. This method allowed her to map the locations of lakes under the ice.

Studying these floods and sediment layers could help scientists understand how the subglacial landscape changes over time. In fact, a recent discovery suggests that subglacial lakes can shift around quite a bit.

borehole: A hole drilled deep into the ground to extract a core of soil, ice or rock. Sometimes the hole is drilled with the goal of getting to gas or pools of liquid, such as water or crude oil.

ice sheet: A broad blanket of ice, often kilometers deep. Ice sheets currently cover most of Antarctica. An ice sheet also blankets most of Greenland. During the last glaciation, ice sheets also covered much of North America and Europe.

limestone: A natural rock formed by the accumulation of calcium carbonate over time, then compressed under great pressure. Most of the starting calcium carbonate came from the shells of sea animals after they died. However, that chemical also can settle out of water, especially after carbon dioxide is removed (by plants, for instance).

The researchers said the land underneath this ice is less well known even than the surface of Mars. They said one way to unlock its mysteries would be to drill through the ice and obtain a core sample of sediments below. This could secure evidence revealing the ancient flora and fauna, as was done with samples obtained in Greenland dating back 2 million years.

Schematic cross section of the Earth's interior. The study by Steve Jacobsen and Brandon Schmandt used seismic waves to find magma generated at the base of the transition zone, around 410 miles deep. Dehydration melting at those conditions, also observed in the study's high-pressure experiments, suggests the transition zone may contain oceans worth of H2O dissolved in high-pressure rock. The findings alter previous assumptions about the Earth's composition.

Northwestern geophysicist Steve Jacobsen and University of New Mexico seismologist Brandon Schmandt have found deep pockets of magma located about 400 miles beneath North America, a likely signature of the presence of water at these depths. The discovery suggests water from the Earth's surface can be driven to such great depths by plate tectonics, eventually causing partial melting of the rocks found deep in the mantle.

The findings, to be published June 13 in the journal Science, will aid scientists in understanding how the Earth formed, what its current composition and inner workings are and how much water is trapped in mantle rock.

"Geological processes on the Earth's surface, such as earthquakes or erupting volcanoes, are an expression of what is going on inside the Earth, out of our sight," said Jacobsen, a co-author of the paper. "I think we are finally seeing evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet. Scientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades."

A blue crystal of ringwoodite containing around one percent of H2O in its crystal structure is compressed to conditions of 700 km depth inside a diamond-anvil cell. Using a laser to heat the sample to temperatures over 1500C (orange spots), the ringwoodite transformed to minerals found in the lowermost mantle. Synchrotron-infrared spectra collected on beamline U2A at the NSLS reveal changes in the OH-absorption spectra that correspond to melt generation, which was also detected by seismic waves underneath most of North America.

Schmandt, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of New Mexico, uses seismic waves from earthquakes to investigate the structure of the deep crust and mantle. Jacobsen, an associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, uses observations in the laboratory to make predictions about geophysical processes occurring far beyond our direct observation.

The study combined Jacobsen's lab experiments in which he studies mantle rock under the simulated high pressures of 400 miles below the Earth's surface with Schmandt's observations using vast amounts of seismic data from the USArray, a dense network of more than 2,000 seismometers across the United States.

Jacobsen's and Schmandt's findings converged to produce evidence that melting may occur about 400 miles deep in the Earth. H2O stored in mantle rocks, such as those containing the mineral ringwoodite, likely is the key to the process, the researchers said.

"The ringwoodite is like a sponge, soaking up water," Jacobsen said. "There is something very special about the crystal structure of ringwoodite that allows it to attract hydrogen and trap water. This mineral can contain a lot of water under conditions of the deep mantle."

Jacobsen uses small gem diamonds as hard anvils to compress minerals to deep-Earth conditions. "Because the diamond windows are transparent, we can look into the high-pressure device and watch reactions occurring at conditions of the deep mantle," he said. "We used intense beams of X-rays, electrons and infrared light to study the chemical reactions taking place in the diamond cell."

The melting the researchers have detected is called dehydration melting. Rocks in the transition zone can hold a lot of H2O, but rocks in the top of the lower mantle can hold almost none. The water contained within ringwoodite in the transition zone is forced out when it goes deeper (into the lower mantle) and forms a higher-pressure mineral called silicate perovskite, which cannot absorb the water. This causes the rock at the boundary between the transition zone and lower mantle to partially melt.

A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has discovered a deep, ancient underground pool of fresh water underneath part of the Sicilian mountains. In their study, reported in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the group used publicly available data gathered from oil discovery efforts to study the groundwater in and around the Gela formation beneath the mountains on the island of Sicily.

As the number of people living on islands grows, scientists continue to look for resources to support them. One such island is Sicily, which lies off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. Officials there are worried about the water supply for a growing population. So the researchers undertook a study of underground freshwater supplies that have not yet been tapped.

The research team suggests that this rainwater trickled down into the crust. Such rainwater, the researchers note, could have accumulated underground as it was soaked up by carbonate rock acting as a sponge. When sea levels returned to normal, the underground fresh water was locked in due to seawater pressure.

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The following trip report is by Tim Banfield who originally posted it on the Backcountry YYC Facebook page. We are sharing it because there are valuable points to take away. One skier was buried four metres deep for over 10 minutes and was saved.

I tried to side-slip down the face but was in uphill mode with skins on and ended up slipping and falling the length of the pass on the icy layer that slid and ended up head first at one point, fortunately just road rash from the fall, I was really hoping to not get hurt because I knew I had to go dig and that it was going to be deep.

We left the probe in place and dug like mutha fackas. It felt like forever to see the probe be 50cm farther along, then one-metres, then more, we had to also dig out all around so we could continue to dig deeper, that felt like such a pain in the ass when all I wanted to do was dig straight down.

Buried skier was still in her skis which made getting her out very time consuming. Her head was approximately four metres deep and she was on an approximate 45-degree angle heading down so her feet were closer to five meters down with the skis attached.

This creature looks more like a clothes horse made up of giant earbuds than a living animal, but it is in fact a carnivorous deepsea sponge called Chondrocladia lyra, first found in 2012. This species can reach up to 37cm long, where they are firmly anchored to the seafloor by a rootlike rhizoid. The fronds are made up by Velcro-like hooks, to ensnare copepods and small crustaceans, which are then coated with digestive membranes and absorbed through external pores. Yum!

Last, but by no means least, is this cute little octopus, just to prove that not all deep sea critters are the toothy, snaring, engulfing monsters produced by excessive late night cheese-eating. This species, with huge eyes and large swimming appendages on its head was discovered only this year off Puerto Rico and has yet to be named. (Or is this cuddly exterior hiding still further terrors!?)

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