Experimental modelling of the growth of tubular ice brinicles from brine flows under sea ice Testón Martínez, Sergio M. Barge, Laura Sainz Díaz, C. Ignacio Cartwright, Julyan H. E. We present laboratory experiments on the growth of a tubular ice structure surrounding a plume of cold brine that descends under gravity into water with a higher freezing point. Brinicles are geological analogues of these structures found under sea ice in the polar regions on Earth. Brinicles are hypothesized to exist in the oceans of other celestial bodies, and being environments rich in minerals, serve a potentially analogous role as an ecosystem on icy-ocean worlds to that of submarine hydrothermal vents on Earth. 2024-07-24T11:38:28Z 2024-07-24T11:38:28Z 2024-05-03 journal article Testón Martínez, S. et. al. The Cryosphere, 18, 2195–2205. [https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2195-2024] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/93454 10.5194/tc-18-2195-2024 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/CA17120 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional European Geosciences Union