An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Enormous Subglacial Basins
The structure is made up of a system of enormous subglacial basins buried in ice over three kilometres thick in parts.
Together, the basins form a giant fan-shaped structure on a continental scale. The team have named it the East Antarctic Fan-shaped Basin Province.
It includes some of Antarctica’s best-known subglacial features, such as the Wilkes and Aurora basins and the basin hosting Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake on Earth.
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