Origin of Antarctic ice revealed

[dipsydoodle]

Incredible peaks and valleys, buried beneath ice for 14 million years, have revealed evidence of how the East Antarctic ice sheet first formed.

Scientists used radar to map an area of the Gamburtsev mountains - believed to be the point of origin of the ice.

The region would have been cold enough for the first glacier to form.

Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers say their findings provide important clues about how the ice sheet will behave as our climate changes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8079767.stm

[tularetom]

1. We already knew that - god put it there 7000 years ago

And then he put all those peaks and valleys underneath the ice to fool scientists into thinking the ice was millions of years old.

Pretty slick that god. Gotta get up early in the morning if you want to put one over on him,