U. researchers find possible water source in Mount Timpanogos rock glacier

SALT LAKE CITY — New research methods are revealing how much water can be found buried in Utah's mountains, leading to an updated understanding of our water supply and knowledge of future hazards.There is enough water in the Timpanogos Rock Glacier to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools, according to new research by University of Utah geologists.How could this be? Geophysicist Michael Thorne says Timpanogos hikers likely wouldn't have known they stood on top of a glacier, because it's covered in rocks, gravel and debris."We suspect that there's ice under many of them," Thorne said. "And as you're looking from the surface, you can see these features, you can measure how large they are on the surface.