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‘Fundamentally unstable’: Scientists confirm their fears about East Antarctica’s biggest glacier
washingtonpost.com ^ | 5/18/2016 | Chris Mooney

Posted on 05/19/2016 9:00:15 AM PDT by rktman

In the new research, researchers took aircraft-based measurements across the vastness of Totten Glacier, and the extremely deep and thick ice canyons behind it — which scientists call “subglacial basins” — in order to understand a critical yet invisible feature: precisely what the layers of rock beneath the ice are really like.

This, in turn, provides a clue to the behavior of this region in past warm eras. When marine-based glaciers move back and forth across a seascape repeatedly, they grind against the seafloor and dig up piles of looser sediment, such as sandstone, depositing them in a new location. But when glaciers move more quickly, sediment beneath them remains more undisturbed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antarctica; ecowackos; glacier; mothernature; warmunists
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To: smokingfrog

I’m thinking continental sinking is the real culprit and they just aren’t telling us. :)


21 posted on 05/19/2016 6:43:27 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
I’m thinking continental sinking is the real culprit and they just aren’t telling us. :)

That's what I think. It's all the heavy buildings, especially the high-rises in cities. Pavement's pretty heavy too... it all adds up, and it's sinking the continents!

22 posted on 05/19/2016 7:15:39 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

LOL. As plausible as the current scam a alma.


23 posted on 05/19/2016 7:35:09 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Global Sinking (tm). You heard it here first!


24 posted on 05/19/2016 7:40:07 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: rktman

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-warn-that-land-subsidence-is-a-more-immediate-threat-to-the-worlds-coastal-megacites-than-9302052.html


25 posted on 05/19/2016 7:44:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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