Scientists Discover Ancient River System Hidden Under Antarctic Ice

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Scientists Discover Ancient River System Hidden Under Antarctic Ice
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An ancient river system that has not seen the light of day for at least 14 million years has been discovered underneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, new research reports.

Top: The location of the Aurora and Schmidt basins in the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet . Below: Ice sheet volumes and climate conditions in East Antarctica over 50 million years. inland from where the present-day ice sheet meets the sea. So it's more likely the terrain formed prior to Antarctic glaciation, when rivers crossed the region to a coastline that appeared as the

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