Friday, July 12, 2013

Vast Canal System Found Beneath Antarctic Ice




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Vast Canal System Found Beneath Antarctic Ice



In a development that will help predict potential sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics have used an innovation in radar analysis to accurately image the vast subglacial water system under West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier. They have detected a swamp-like canal system beneath the ice that is several times as large as Florida’s Everglades. Figure showing the transition from swamp-like water to stream-like water beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica. Credit: University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.






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