First investigation of perennial ice in Winter Wonderland Cave, Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA

Munroe, Jeffrey S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-863-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-863-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-863-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

Research article

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18 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 18 Feb 2021

First investigation of perennial ice in Winter Wonderland Cave, Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA

Jeffrey S. Munroe

Data sets

Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah: stable isotope and geochemical data for ice and cryogenic cave carbonate (CCC) Jeffrey S. Munroe https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.b5f0000096174af9af94fe62bd2065d6

Short summary

This study investigated a cave in Utah (USA) that contains a deposit of perennial ice. Such ice caves are important sources of information about past climate and are currently threatened by rising temperatures. The origin (precipitation), thickness (3 m), and age (several centuries) of the ice were constrained by a variety of methods. Liquid water recently entered the cave for the first time in many years, suggesting a destabilization of the cave environment.