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The Antarctic Ice Sheet may be hiding the world's largest canyon system
2016-01-14 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Geologists studying satellite imagery of the remote Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica, one of the largest unsurveyed land surfaces on Earth, have discovered evidence of a massive subglacial canyon system buried beneath the ice. Tipped off by the physical hints, the team of researchers utilized radio-echo sounding to pull back the white curtain and peer through the ice. What they found is an absolute monstrosity of geology, a canyon system believed to be more than 685 miles long and as...
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