Antarctic Volcanoes Waking up?
Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheetThis is in […]
Date Posted:
August 16, 2017
Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet
This is in addition to 47 already known about and eruption would melt more ice in region affected by climate change https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/scientists-discover-91-volcanos-antarctica
- Nearly 100 Volcanoes Discovered Beneath Antarctica’s Ice http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/08/14/volcanoes-under-antarctica
- A new volcanic province: an inventory of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbingha2/48_2017_Vries.pdf
- How a melting ice sheet could actually lower sea level in some places http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/how-melting-ice-sheet-could-actually-lower-sea-level-some-places
- High geothermal heat flux measured below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/1/6/e1500093.full.pdf
- Bill McGuire – Waking the Giant: Climate Force and Geological Hazards (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndhx7KpSU0
- Mt. Erebus Blasting Massive Molten Lava https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUy8vtk6OgE
- Teaser image Mt Erebus, via http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=390020
- Mount Erebus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus
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