Antarctic Volcanoes Waking up?
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
Note: This video is no longer available since YouTube closed our channel citing misinformation.
- 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
Tags: 2017, Antarctica, Earthquakes, Seismicity, Volcano
Categories: Geosphere, Glacier, Ice Sheets, Science, Volcanos
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