Missing lake swallowed up by crack

SANTIAGO, Chile.-Scientists said that a lake in southern Chile that mysteriously disappeared last month developed a crack which allowed the water to drain away.A buildup of water opened a crack in an ice wall along one side of the lake.Water flowed through the crack into a nearby fjord and from there into the sea, leaving behind a dry lake-bed littered with icebergs, scientists told Chilean state television Tuesday."It looks like it's slowly filling up with water again,"said Andres Rivera, a glacier expert who headed a team which recently flew over the lake in a bid to solve the mystery.The lake is situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and is fed by melt-water from glaciers.Earlier this year it had a surface area of 10-12 acres-about the size of 10 soccer fields.Scientists noticed it had disappeared during a routine patrol of the area in May.
Rivera said the incident was evidence of the effects of global warming.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/07/04/missing.lake.reut/index.html

PS:It seems lately most of our problems are cause by global warming...By the way,the lake is filling up again slowly...SO what it all happened with the crack...?

As in the days of Noah...