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Scientists survey unusual sulfate formations near a small pond by the Lewis Cliff Ice Tongue. The Lost Dry Valleys of the Polar Plateau
Science / Earth
Wednesday October 21, 2015

Today the McMurdo Dry Valleys are a unique geographic feature in Antarctica, lowland regions away from the coast with no ice cover. However, unusual mineral mounds discovered along the Transantarctic Mountains indicates that there may have once been more places like them elsewhere on the continent.

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