Sentences with phrase «rivers under the ice»

According to the NASA press release, the study «adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctic Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.»

A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.

Not exact matches

Stand atop an esker while you imagine a river passing under ice.

Among other things, GRACE may have found a crater deep under the Antarctic ice that may mark an asteroid impact greater than the one that doomed the dinosaurs, measured the seafloor displacement that triggered the tsunami of 2004, and quantified changes in subsurface water in the Amazon and Congo river basins.

They are linked by rivers that form when melting ice expands the lakes, increasing pressure under the ice cap and causing underground channels of water and mud to squirt out.

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Of predictable discoveries, one can forecast several: another great Ice Age painted cave like Lascaux or Chauvet; a rich Egyptian burial, perhaps as fine as Tutankhamen's; an ancient city buried under sediment in the valley of one of the great west Asian rivers; and a rich cache under the heart of a great Mesoamerican city.

We suggested that, given the documented flow of water beneath the ice sheet, perhaps sub-glacial rivers carried in the microbes, and Tranter responded, «People would have laughed at you a decade ago, but there is a river system under the ice sheet.

Various species are not going to make it though, like that Chinese river dolphin that just went under, and that bugs me a lot more than the loss of ice or nitwit humans.

Scientists think mantle plumes are thin streams of heated rock that makes its way upward, melting ice and creating rivers and lakes of meltwater under Antarctica's western ice sheet.

Build an ice cap on that; you get water and silt being extruded out of the basins, even flowing «uphill» under that pressure; look at the radar maps, the ice may have pushed a lot of silt out to its edges over time, you can see the pattern of river drainage channels in the radar imagery.

Also glaciers sliding on under - ice rivers and lakes don't lend themselves to single time constants for the whole Earth.