Sentences with phrase «known subglacial»
Vostok is the best - known subglacial lake and probably the largest that will ever be found, but there are plenty of others, and satellite and radar surveys keep turning up more.
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Lake Vostok is the best known and largest of the subglacial lakes, measuring roughly the size of Lake Ontario.
One thing that is known for sure about Antarctica's network of subglacial waterways is that they are not some insignificant sideshow to the grand drama of the continent's ice sheets.
Photojournalist Keith Heyward uses a dolly to film above a formation in the Dry Valleys known as the Labyrinth, a series of deep troughs and ridges that researchers believe was carved out in a massive subglacial flood roughly 12 million years ago.
I know that, such as East Antarctica, which ice sheet's thickness could reach several kilometers therefore huge pressure and geothermal flux results in melting, then the subglacial lakes and water channels.
Lying beneath more than two miles of Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok may be the best - known and largest subglacial lake in the world, but it is not alone down there.