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Article: The Antarctic Alps.(In The News: Short news items of interest to the scientific community)
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- Science and Children
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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A U.S.-led, international team of scientists has not only verified the existence of a mountain range that is suspected to have caused the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet to form, but also has created a detailed picture of the rugged landscape buried under more than 4 km of ice.
"Working cooperatively in some of the harshest conditions imaginable, all the while working in temperatures that averaged -30 degrees Celsius, our seven-nation team has produced detailed images of last unexplored mountain range on Earth," said Michael Studinger of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the coleader of the U.S. portion of the Antarctica's Gamburstev ...