New volcano discovered smoldering under a thick ice of West Antarctica
During a project to reconstruct Antarctica’s climate history, scientists from Washington University in St. Louis discovered that a new volca...
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During a project to reconstruct Antarctica’s climate history, scientists from Washington University in St. Louis discovered that a new volcano is smoldering under a 1.2 - 2 km thick ice. They say its heat may increase the rate of ice loss from one of the continent’s major ice streams.
Although numerous volcanoes exist in Marie Byrd Land, a highland region of West Antarctica where this new volcano is located, until now there has been no evidence for recent magmatic activity.
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