https://www.livescience.com/62924-v...tarctica-glacier.html?utm_source=notification
What lurks beneath western Antarctica's frozen surface? Volcanic heat, according to a new study. And that extra warmth might be speeding up the disappearance of the Pine Island Glacier, the continent's fastest-melting glacier.
Chilly Antarctica hides much under thick layers of ice, which extend for miles over its bedrock. Scientists previously found a volcanic rift system stretching under West Antarctica and into the Ross Sea, with as many as 138 volcanoes identified. However, those volcanoes have been dormant for 2,200 years, and evidence that turned up near the Pine Island Glacier pointed to recent magma activity deep underground, the researchers reported.
Scientists Discover 91 Volcanoes Below Antarctic Ice Sheet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/scientists-discover-91-volcanos-antarctica
I found this image interesting because the mass of Antarctica looks like it is a large cloud of gases created by the volcanoes themselves after the volcanoes have erupted. The four volcanoes at the Northern tip appear to create a cloud flow that travels North to South while the other volcanoes create a cloud flow from West to East.
The link below shows the wind patterns in the Antarctic Circle.
https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-a-volcano-erupts-in-Antarctica
The thing is though, why would ice form over a region of volcanoes that looks like a very large cloud of gas that has erupted from the volcanoes?
Could Antarctica actually be the frozen cloud plumes from all of the volcano eruptions taking place that for some reason was instantly frozen in place in the ancient past?
With the heat source buried under miles of ice I would have to say that the event that took place that froze the spewing gas clouds had to have happened when the Earth had less water on it.
What lurks beneath western Antarctica's frozen surface? Volcanic heat, according to a new study. And that extra warmth might be speeding up the disappearance of the Pine Island Glacier, the continent's fastest-melting glacier.
Chilly Antarctica hides much under thick layers of ice, which extend for miles over its bedrock. Scientists previously found a volcanic rift system stretching under West Antarctica and into the Ross Sea, with as many as 138 volcanoes identified. However, those volcanoes have been dormant for 2,200 years, and evidence that turned up near the Pine Island Glacier pointed to recent magma activity deep underground, the researchers reported.
Scientists Discover 91 Volcanoes Below Antarctic Ice Sheet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/scientists-discover-91-volcanos-antarctica
I found this image interesting because the mass of Antarctica looks like it is a large cloud of gases created by the volcanoes themselves after the volcanoes have erupted. The four volcanoes at the Northern tip appear to create a cloud flow that travels North to South while the other volcanoes create a cloud flow from West to East.
The link below shows the wind patterns in the Antarctic Circle.
https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-a-volcano-erupts-in-Antarctica
The thing is though, why would ice form over a region of volcanoes that looks like a very large cloud of gas that has erupted from the volcanoes?
Could Antarctica actually be the frozen cloud plumes from all of the volcano eruptions taking place that for some reason was instantly frozen in place in the ancient past?
With the heat source buried under miles of ice I would have to say that the event that took place that froze the spewing gas clouds had to have happened when the Earth had less water on it.
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