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Heat source under Antarctica melting its ice sheet: NASA [1]

A geothermal heat source called mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet, a NASA study has found.

Publication Date: 
09/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Global Warming [3], Geothermal Energy [4], Antarctica [5], NASA [6], Glacial Melt [7]
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