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To: GraceG
Antarctica appears to have had a half billion years stuck at the bottom. There's a mountain range there that may be that old and it's encased. It's currently under a 2 mile deep ice cap, but those mountains were glacier capped for a very long time and are nice and sharp, just like they were brand new.
30 posted on 12/09/2011 11:58:20 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

[ Antarctica appears to have had a half billion years stuck at the bottom. There’s a mountain range there that may be that old and it’s encased. It’s currently under a 2 mile deep ice cap, but those mountains were glacier capped for a very long time and are nice and sharp, just like they were brand new. ]

Hmm, I always thought it drifted around with the others....

Of course there are so many theories on the past positions of continents, they only know where they used to fit together and not exactly WHERE they were in relation Long/Lat...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Geological_history_and_paleontology


32 posted on 12/09/2011 12:07:31 PM PST by GraceG
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