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The Onyx River is an Antarctic meltwater stream which flows westward through the Wright Valley from Wright Lower Glacier and Lake Brownworth at the foot of the glacier to Lake Vanda, during the few months of the Antarctic summer. At 32 kilometres (20 mi) in length, it is the longest river in Antarctica.
El río Onyx es un arroyo de agua de nieve de la Antártida que fluye al oeste del valle de Wright desde el glaciar Wright Inferior y el lago Brownworth hasta el lago Vanda durante algunos meses del verano antártico. A pesar de tener solo 32 km, es el más largo de todo el continente. [1]
The Onyx River is a meltwater stream that flows to the west through the Wright Valley between the Wright Lower Glacier to Lake Vanda. The Onyx River is one of the sites studied by the US Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation. It is the longest river in Antarctica. It is 32 kilometers long.
The Chalice of Doña Urraca is a jewel-encrusted onyx chalice kept at St. Isidore's Basilica in León, Spain, which belonged to infanta Urraca of Zamora, daughter of Ferdinand I of Leon . In March 2014, Spanish authors Margarita Torres and José Ortega del Rio asserted the chalice could be the purported Holy Grail (a claim that had never been ...
Antarctica. In Antarctica: Relief. The evanescent Onyx River, for example, flows from Lower Wright Glacier terminus to empty into the nondrained basin of Lake Vanda near McMurdo Sound. Glacially sculptured landforms now predominate, as they must have some 300 million years ago, in an earlier period of continental glaciation of all… Read More.
El río Onyx es un arroyo de agua de nieve de la Antártida que fluye al oeste del valle de Wright desde el glaciar Wright Inferior y el lago Brownworth hasta el lago Vanda durante algunos meses del verano antártico. A pesar de tener solo 32 km, es el más largo de todo el continente.
Dec 9, 2021 · El río Onyx es el más grande y ecológicamente más importante de las nueve corrientes semipermanentes de agua de deshielo presentes en la Antártida. Todos aparecen solo durante los pocos meses cortos de la temporada de verano antártica. Aunque se considera un río, ningún pez vive en sus aguas.
