[ANDY REVKIN says: Here's a starting point — a recent story by my colleague Ken Chang on one of the Antarctic under -
ice volcano reports.]
Not exact matches
Although other researchers had noticed a sulfuric signal in the
ice layer below Tambora's, Cole - Dai was the first to announce that it belonged to an 1809
volcano, and what's more, to a massive
volcano that nobody at the time had
reported.
In: Glaciers,
Ice Sheets and
Volcanoes: A tribute to Mark F. Meier, edited by S. Colbeck, CRREL Special
Report 96 - 27, 52 - 56.
Early 19th - century explorers all
reported a land rich in fantastic animals,
ice - capped
volcanoes and impenetrable Amazonian jungles, but few visitors followed in their footsteps.
A National Academy of Sciences
report attributes a primary cause of those thunderous West Antarctic
Ice Sheet iceberg collapses we often see featured in the media to geothermal heat from seabed
volcanoes below.