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Radar images of the Gamburtsev Mountains, buried deep under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, reveals chiseled peaks, some towering 4,500 feet above deep valleys. New research suggests the process that began to form the subglacial mountain range began a billion years ago. Mystery Solved
Science / Earth
Friday November 25, 2011

Scientists have described how a mountain range the size of the European Alps - but buried under Antarctica's giant ice sheet - came into existence through a process that began a billion years ago.
Gradate student Daniel McGrath installs the ground penetrating radar to a snowmobile at a field camp on the Larsen C Ice Shelf. The radar enables the researchers to map the underside of the ice shelf, where bands of marine water frozen to the bottom of the fresh water ice is crucial to its stability. On the Shelf
Science / Ice and Snow
Friday November 25, 2011

Three years after first visiting the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula to assess its stability in a rapidly changing environment, a team of scientists is headed back to the Larsen C Ice Shelf during the 2011-12 field season one last time to check on its health. The prognosis isn't good.

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