Hot rock and ice: Volcanic chain underlies Antarctica
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 8 December, 2015
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Scientists were able to deploy ruggidized seismometers that could withstand intense cold in Antarctica only recently. A line of seismometers strung across the West Antarctic Rift Valley and the Marie Byrd Land have given geologists their first good look at the mantle beneath the ice and rocks, revealing areas of hot rock that might affect the behavior of the overlying ice sheet....