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Geoscientists Find Vast Fan-Shaped Structure beneath Antarctica’s Ice


By combining seismic, gravity and topographic data, a team of researchers from Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom found that several well-known subglacial basins in East Antarctica are part of a single fan-shaped province whose origins trace back to ancient continental stretching.

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