Posted on 11/20/2013 6:03:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Seismologists working in a mountainous area of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica detected a swarm of low-magnitude earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 similar to those that can precede volcanic eruptions... and the characteristics and depth of the seismic events are consistent with those found in volcanic areas of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, the Pacific Northest, Hawaii and Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines...
The tight focus of the 1,370 tremors and their deep, long-period waves helped researchers rule out ice quakes, glacial motion or tectonic activity as causes. So, too, did their apparent depth: At 15-25 miles beneath the sub-glacial surface, they are close to the local boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle... most of the events analyzed occurred in two swarms during the first two months of 2010 and in March 2011.
Radar imaging also revealed a buried ash layer believed to be from an eruption of Mt. Waesche about 8,000 years ago. There also is evidence of small flows of magma on the sub-ice topography, and the surface closest to the swarm appears to be a mound of volcanic material, according to the study.
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what is that from?
I visited the Ice Caves on Mt Rainier many years ago before they last closed up. It was spectacular. Blue cathedrals. It was really breathtaking.
Under a few miles of Antarctic ice there would likely be no light getting through... But who knows? Old, hard ice does tend to get clearer as it gets older... Maybe there are conditions that let some, if even very
Iittle, illumination get through? Dunno.
YOU ROCK! \m/ ^_^ \m/
This will turn the AGW/Climate change debate upside down.
I was in some Mt. Rainier ice caves back in 1962. I remember walking along the edge of the river running through it (and it was running fast) - and I knew no one would ever find me again, if I slipped and fell in. And remember it was all slippery ice inside there - and slipping and falling was more probable than not.
And one time I was on the Athabasca Glacier in Canada, where we took one of those big snowcats out onto the ice. The guide said to not wander very far, because if we slipped down into one of those big cracks in the ice - no one would find us for a thousand years. Hoo-boy!
There’s a similar unnatural feature at the South Pole. It was formed from the station effluent. Frozen and strangely beautiful.
No light = no photosynthesis = oxygen eventually gets used up. So you would wind up with anaerobic bacteria plus whatever could live off the emissions from volcanic vents. Any multi-cellular life which evolved in that environment would be exceedingly different.
He ran into giant Penguins there too.
“Kowalski, options!
Well Skipper, let’s just step on the humans and take over the whole world”
No wait! That was Lovecraft.
Once the word gets out that there's jumbo perch down there, it'll be swarming with ice fishermen and their gas powered augers.......
You can update Ben Franklin's saying to be, "Those who would give up Liberty for Healthcare, have Neither."
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