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According to research, the Himalayan Parkachik Glacier in Ladakh might rapidly melt and form three glacier lakes with average depths between 34 and 84 meters.
According to researchers from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehradun, these lakes may be a potential source of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayas.
One of the biggest glaciers in the western Himalaya's Suru River basin, which is a part of the Southern Zanskar Ranges, is the Parkachik Glacier. The union territory of Ladakh contains the Zanskar Range, which is a component of the Himalayas.
The study concluded that continued climatic warming, which also affects glaciers' surface morphology or geology, is to blame for the faster glacial retreat.
There is a possibility that glacial lake outburst floods could be caused by new glacial lakes emerging and old glacial lakes expanding as a result of faster glacial retreat and surface morphological changes.
When a glacier erodes the terrain and subsequently melts, it leaves a depression that is filled with glacial lakes.
Three possible over-deepening sites for lake formation on the glacier at various elevations have been identified by the researchers in this study. Each of these lakes has a lake area that might be anything between 43 and 270 hectares.
However, they claimed that the glacier's dynamics affected the growth and shrinkage of these lakes.
According to the study's surface ice velocity estimation, there has been a slowing, which has increased the amount of debris on the glacier surface, or the ablation zone.
