Antarctic volcanoes identified as culprit in glacier melt
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Antarctic volcanoes identified as culprit in glacier melt
Antarctic volcanoes identified as a possible culprit in glacier melting
By Kenneth Chang
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/20/europe/climate.php
Are SUVs or Boosh responsible for the volcanoes?
By Kenneth Chang
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/20/europe/climate.php
Another factor might be contributing to the thinning of some of the Antarctica's glaciers: volcanoes.
In an article published Sunday on the Web site of the journal Nature Geoscience, Hugh Corr and David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey report the identification of a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards frozen within an ice sheet in western Antarctica.
"This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet" in Antarctica, Vaughan said.
Volcanic heat could still be melting ice to water and contributing to thinning and speeding up of the Pine Island glacier, which passes nearby, but Vaughan said he doubted that it could be affecting other glaciers in western Antarctica, which have also thinned in recent years. Most glaciologists, including Vaughan, say that warmer ocean water is the primary cause of thinning
Are SUVs or Boosh responsible for the volcanoes?
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Age : 73
Location : Zarr Chasm, WV--between Flotsam and Belch on the Cheat River
Registration date : 2007-12-28
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