Thank you Voyageur and Potatoes and Tomatoes for the additional info. Well, it looks like "Houston, we have a problem here" with the Glacier girl and the other crafts of this fleet and where, when and under how much ice they were excavated.
And I think the problem can be summarized as follows, from Voyageur's post:
"In retrospect, it seems obvious that the airplanes would be buried under a good deal of ice. But no one was prepared for how much."
In regards to the old trees under the
Mendenhall Glacier, we have to keep in mind here that this one is a Mountain glacier in Alaska, in contrast to the "Greenland Ice sheet" in which the Glacier girl was recovered. Another place and quite another ice morphology and behavior I would guess. So leaving this interesting piece of evidence from Alaska aside for the moment, I would like to concentrate on the Glacier Girl and its companions in the fleet, since it could represent quite big problems both for the human made global warming folks, as well as the scientist who study ice core samples with which thea come up with their past climate datings and catastrophes.
Agree, yet I don't know about studies - had a look and the only mention so far comes from
Popular Mechanics wherein they seem to suggest it sank rather than was
covered over by the up to 300 ft. as cited ("the ever-shifting ice sheets of Greenland buried the aircraft") - right. It does not really look good to say it was just covered up, so they used the 'shifting ice' to explain. Shifting ice would pretty much do the plane in if that was the case, and the plane was in good condition. It sounds like the signs that it was there in the first place was by recovering hydraulic fluid pulled up when probing.
Well, the idea of the planes having been covered over by ice instead of buried by NEW ice is actually one of the reasons I would like to see some concrete archeological and geological studies on the exact location of those planes, since Greenland is known for its complex shifting and moving, melting and building up of ice sheets, in various places. It is a rather unique place in regards to ice behaviors compared to other large ice sheets. So we shouldn't dismiss the idea of it being covered by shifting ice sheets out of hand.
At least we still have the big problem of the planes having been pretty much intact after excavation as you mentioned as well. That is indeed a big data point that speaks against a moving ice sheet that went over the planes. If an ice sheet of any substantial height would have moved over the planes, you can bet that they would have been pretty much destroyed and not at all as pristine as they were discovered. Also, the idea of the planes falling into deep cracks, seems to be fairly unlikely, because of the pristine condition the planes were found in.
The only "plausible" explanation I could think of out of my head, that maybe could explain the evidence in favor to the shifting ice idea, is that the planes were covered in a not so big ice sheet of a couple of meters (frozen in) soon after they landed and later a much bigger, already existing ice sheet, moved over the already solidly frozen planes. That could at least theoretically explain why they weren't crashed to pieces by the ice.
It looks like it was a private enterprise and no one really looked at it scientifically, which is a big pity, to say the least. The exact location in Greenland where they were found, would already be a big plus in solving this problem. I couldn't find that yet.
Having said that, the most sensible explanation, from the little data we have, is that they were indeed buried under that much new snow/ice since 1942.
And now comes an even more interesting part, that can be found
in Potatoes and Tomatoes post above. In the article we can read (notice the bolded parts):
August 25, 2018 06:45am ET
A World War II airplane that was lost in Greenland decades ago has been found deep beneath glacial ice. The warplane was part of the so-called Lost Squadron, and was first spotted by an aerial drone, though a ground-based survey confirmed the location. Searchers hope to eventually melt the ice and recover the warplane.
Searchers have located the wreck of a P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft buried deep within a glacier in Greenland,
more than 70 years after a lost squadron of U.S. warplanes crash-landed on the ice there during World War II.
The search team plans to dig and melt
the rediscovered warplane out of the glacier next summer — and the searchers hope that their techniques can locate other
World War II air wrecks in the region, including some that carried MIA (missing in action) U.S. airmen. [
Photos: WWII Battleship 'USS Juneau' Discovered]
The Lost Squadron of airplanes included a group of two B-17 bombers and six P-38 fighters flying from the U.S. to Britain in July 1942 when they hit a storm and went down in remote Greenland. Here, a photo of the P-38 fighter on the ice.
Credit: US Army
The search leader, California businessman Jim Salazar, told Live Science that
the team found the wrecked P-38 on July 4 beneath more than 300 feet (91 meters) of ice using a ground-penetrating radar antenna fitted to a heavy-lift aerial drone. The drone was scanning a part of the glacier where hints of the buried warplane
were detected in 2011.
[...]
Snowball Route
This latest find echoes the 1992 recovery of another P-38 fighter from the same "Lost Squadron" of U.S. warplanes in Greenland. That fighter was eventually restored to flying condition under the name "Glacier Girl".
Anybody notice something peculiar in the above? We are talking about the rediscovery of another plane of the same "Lost Squadron" fleet, that Glacier Girl was a part of. So recently, they started to rediscover another plane of that fleet, that hasn't been excavated/recovered in 1992, from this lost "Lost Squadron" and they want to dig it out next year.
Notice that it says "Jim Salazar, told Live Science that
the team found the wrecked P-38 on July 4 beneath more than 300 feet (91 meters) of ice". First, notice the roundabout number of "over 300 feet" and second that no exact date of this measurement is given. Was that amount of ice measured in 2011 or later? And under how much ice was it exactly?
Since the article doesn't mention those crucial data points, I had to look elsewhere, and I found the following bunch of articles, in some of which the height of the ice of this rediscovery is given as 340 feet and in others as
350 feet. Notice the big discrepancy to the statement above of "over 300 feet". And that in other articles it says "around 300 feet".... How can you say that, when it is actually probably well over 300 feet, with one article stating "350 + feet"?
"340" feet:
1:
Expedition to locate P-38 “Echo” from Lost Squadron just returned from Greenland’s Ice Cap
2:
Consent Form | Flying Magazine
"350 +" feet:
1:
A Team Just Found Another P-38 Under 300 Ft. Of Ice-Prepping To Recover
Notice that in the last article it provides the depth as:
Burrowing into the ice some 350+ feet, they hit something hard that couldn’t be melted and pulled the probe up.
Notice also that they also finally give us a date in that article, when exactly that probe hit the 350 + feet mark:
In July 2018, they send down a probe through 350 feet of ice and got confirmation that they hit their target and found the aircraft they were looking for.
So low and behold we have the following:
- In July 2018 the P-38 from the same fleet as "Glacier Girl" was rediscovered, buried under 350+ feet of ice/snow
- In 1992 Glacier girl was pulled out of under 268 feet [81,68 Meters] of ice/snow (
August 1, 1992)
Conclusion:
- In the last 26 years, between approximately July 1992 and July 2018, an additional 82 feet [25 Meters] of ice/snow build up on top of the planes, arriving at a total of 350 + feet [106,68 Meters] since July 1942 (when the planes landed)!
A couple of simple calculations derived from those numbers, with pretty interesting results:
- The total height accumulated over the planes
between July 1942 and approximately July 1992 was 268 feet [81,68 Meters], which means in a time span of exactly 50 years. That calculates to an
average rate of increase of 5,36 feet [1,633 Meters] of ice/snow over the planes in every year in that time span.
-
Between approximately July 1992 and July 2018 an additional 82 feet [25 Meters] of ice was added, which means in a time span of exactly 26 years. That calculates to an
average rate of increase of 3,153 feet [0,961 Meters] of ice/snow over the planes in every year in that time span.
- Taken together we get: In a time span of 76 years, from July 1942 to July 2018, the ice over the planes increased in an
average rate of 4,605 feet [1,4036 Meters] in every year of that time span.
- The thickest thickness of the Greenland ice sheet (here again I have a hard time to find an exact number) is generally given as "
over 3 Kilometers at its thickest point" and "
The oldest known ice in the current ice sheet is as old as 1,000,000 years old." A concrete thickness for this
1 Million year dating, is given in
this scientific article as "
3020–3026 m", on which that date of one million is based. It is from the GRIP data which they summarize as follows:
- GRIP dating documents the presence of ice over central Greenland for the past 1 Myr.
[...]
We present geochemical analyses of the basal ice from Dye-3 (1991–2035 m) and GRIP (3020–3026 m) that characterize and date the ice.
[...]
The oldest average age of replicates measured at various depths is 970±140 ka for the GRIP ice core...
- So as we have rightly guessed, the scientist think that under currently the thickest point in Greenland, at the very bottom of it [3020–3026 Meters] they "measured" it at an
average date of 1 Million years ago. The variance is given as
970±140 ka. Which means somewhere between 1.110.00 years ago and 830.000 years ago.
- Calculated with the mean given at 970 ka, we can calculate the following for fun and interest, with the accumulation data over the planes:
If we assume for the sake of the argument that the above 76 year period of ice accumulation over the planes is the average/mean increase of ice/snow in the past, with which we can calculate the date of that thickest point under the Greenland ice sheet, we get this:
1: 1,4036 Meters ≙ snow/ice accumulation every year on average in the last 76 years
3026 Meters ≙
2.155,88 years!
That means if we calculate with the average yearly rate of ice increase over the planes over the last 76 years, we arrive at the date 2.155,88 years before July 2018 for the first snow on the 3026 deep layer under Greenland ice sheet to appear, that is conventionally dated by the ice core people at approximately 970.000 years ago!?
That is a humongous difference right there!
Now we might argue that there were much colder and warmer periods in the official time line which both would make that calculated number of 2.155,88 much bigger, but in fact that doesn't seem to be the case, quite the contrary in fact. If we would calculate in a couple of warm periods, in which it probably snowed much less, like the "medieval warm period", it is only logically to assume that the 2155 year calculation (we calculated above) would need to be calculated quite significantly downward. The same holds true for very cold periods in which it probably snowed much more if you think about it. Am I missing something here?
How to reconcile that????
So what I'm getting here is the following:
- The Glacier Girl and its companions in the fleet represent maybe a case study that creates huge problems, both for the global warming Propagandists, as well as the ice core scientists and their datings
- The Uniformitarian dogma of a slow "one drop of water, one grain of sand at a time" model, over long millions of years, without anything fairly big happening in between, in pretty short periods, might be responsible for huge miscalculations of dating data not only in ice cores.
- Then again, we are dealing with Greenland, a very complex ice sheet system, so definitively more data is needed, especially about the location of the planes on Greenland.