Lush forests once grew in Antarctic--new published science says (SUV did not exist)
- New science shows earth's orbit lead to global warming.
- Martin Siegert of the University of Edinburgh, UK, says it is very likely that there are bits of frozen vegetation down there too – far out of reach. "It would have looked much like Patagonia today, with
- quite lush forests and small valley glaciers cutting into the alpine topography," he says....
- as glaciers expanded, retracted, and flowed downstream.
The images were collected between 2004 and 2008 by researchers who drove huge trains of caterpillar tractors in tight lines over Dome A, a plateau of ice at the heart of Antarctica. The tractors carried radars that pinged down through the ice...
- Earlier this year, the British Antarctic Survey revealed images of the mountains' profile.
Some 34 million years ago, small mountain-top glaciers developed. They froze and thawed
"Journal reference: Nature (DOI: 10.1038/nature08024)"
- from New Scientist, 6/3/09, "How Antarctica grew its ice--and lost its hanging gardens," by Catherine Brahic
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