Antarctica and its Volcanism and Vostok

Even if all the ice on Antarctica melted it would raise the ocean level 200 feet hardly a global flood. One volcano or even a chain of them would only melt a fraction of the ice.
I think theres more to worry about the methane leaking from under the arctic. But they rather blame mans coal plants, lol.

OP WITH ALL DUE RESPECT THERE NEVER WAS A GREAT FLOOD.MEANING WORLD WIDE IT IS AGAINST THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND GEOLOGY,AS WELL AS CORRECT THINKING.THE BOOKS OF THE BI BAAL WERE ALL WRITTEN AT A TIME THE WORLD WAS INCORRECTLY BELIEVED TO BE FLAT LET US NOT FORGET.
IN ADDITION PONDER THIS ,COMMON SENSE IS NEITHER COMMON NOR IS IT ABOUT SENSE,IT IS HOWEVER CORRECT THINKING AND ACTING UPON.THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO USE CORRECT THINKING AND ACTING UPON. the white rose

Even if all the ice on Antarctica melted it would raise the ocean level 200 feet hardly a global flood. One volcano or even a chain of them would only melt a fraction of the ice.
I think theres more to worry about the methane leaking from under the arctic. But they rather blame mans coal plants, lol.

Don't be a dumbass.
The bible said the world was a sphere. The "intellectuals" of the day claime otherwise.
"Correct thinking" eh? You a guv shill or just an idiot sheep?

SO THEN YOU BELIEVE THERE WAS A WORLD WIDE FLOOD.
ALSO WHY THE HOSTILITY .the white rose

Don't be a dumbass.
The bible said the world was a sphere. The "intellectuals" of the day claime otherwise.
"Correct thinking" eh? You a guv shill or just an idiot sheep?

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Dude! Go outside and find a building that is 200 ft high and then check out the elevations of major cities all over the worlds. Will Miami, Houston, NYC, etc survive?

Lol! Hardly a global flood!

Yes, global as in global, you know covering all the worlds land mass. Typical right and left coasters, think the entire world lies within 10 miles of the ocean. Thankyou for flying over.

[link to www.sciencedaily.com]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2008) — The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica's most rapidly changing ice sheet has been reported. The volcano on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet erupted 2000 years ago (325BC) and remains active.

The subglacial volcano has a 'volcanic explosion index' of around 3-4. Heat from the volcano creates melt-water that lubricates the base of the ice sheet and increases the flow towards the sea. Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is showing rapid change and BAS scientists are part of an international research effort to understand this change.

Using airborne ice-sounding radar, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a layer of ash produced by a 'subglacial' volcano. It extends across an area larger than Wales.

Lead author* Hugh Corr of the BAS says, "The discovery of a 'subglacial' volcanic eruption from beneath the Antarctic ice sheet is unique in itself. But our techniques also allow us to put a date on the eruption, determine how powerful it was and map out the area where ash fell. We believe this was the biggest eruption in Antarctica during the last 10,000 years. It blew a substantial hole in the ice sheet, and generated a plume of ash and gas that rose around 12 km into air."

The discovery is another vital piece of evidence that will help determine the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and refine predictions of future sea-level rise. Glaciers are like massive rivers of ice that flow towards the coast and discharge icebergs into the sea.

Co-author Professor David Vaughan (BAS) says,"This eruption occurred close to Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The flow of this glacier towards the coast has speeded up in recent decades and it may be possible that heat from the volcano has caused some of that acceleration. However, it cannot explain the more widespread thinning of West Antarctic glaciers that together are contributing nearly 0.2mm per year to sea-level rise. This wider change most probably has its origin in warming ocean waters."

About the volcano

The volcano is located beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet in the Hudson Mountains at latitude 74.6°South, longitude 97°West. Volcanoes are an important component of the Antarctic region. They formed in diverse tectonic settings, mainly as a result of mantle plumes acting on the stationary Antarctic plate. The region also includes amongst the world's best examples of a long-lived continental margin arc (Antarctic Peninsula), a very young marginal basin (Bransfield Strait) and an oceanic island arc (South Sandwich Islands). Many extinct volcanoes are very well preserved and others are still active (e.g. Deception Island, Mount Erebus, and the South Sandwich Islands).

Volcanic eruptions were common during the past 25 million years, and coincided with the great period of climatic deterioration that resulted in the formation of the Antarctic ice sheet. Many of the volcanoes show the effects of interaction with ice. BAS has played a major role in describing these effects and modelling their influences on the resulting volcanic sequences. It is important to describe and understand these interactions in geologically recent times in order to predict future configurations of the ice sheet and its role in the global system.

*The paper 'A recent volcanic eruption beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet' by Hugh F Corr and David G Vaughan is published in the February edition of Nature Geosciences (online).

Yes, global as in global, you know covering all the worlds land mass. Typical right and left coasters, think the entire world lies within 10 miles of the ocean. Thankyou for flying over.

Preliminary Report: Record Temperatures at South Pole (and nearby AWS sites…)
[link to amrc.ssec.wisc.edu]



South Pole’s Record Breaking Week…(Corrected!)
Posted on December 31, 2011 by mattl

Here’s more on South Pole Stations record breaking week of weather (Courtesy of South Pole Meteorology Office):

December 24th: The peak wind speed of 29 kts/33 mph broke the previous record of 28 kts/32 mph set in 1996.
December 24th: The temperature of -13.3°C/8.1°F broke the previous maximum temperature record of -15.7°C/3.7°F set in 1984.
December 25th: The temperature of -12.3°C/9.9°F broke the previous maximum temperature record of -17.2°C/1.0°F set in 1978.
December 25th: The temperature of -12.3°C/9.9°F broke the record for the all-time maximum temperature at South Pole. The previous record of -13.6°C/7.5°F was set on December 27, 1978.
December 30th: The peak wind speed of 25 kts/29 mph broke the previous record of 21 kts/24 mph set in 1989.
[link to amrc.ssec.wisc.edu]


Its warming up and getting windier.

And breaking all previous records.

Oh Good God. "All-Time Record High Temperature" previously set in the late seventies, early eighties? No previous records before the last paltry, measly 30 or 40 years? Give me a break.

This tunnel vision about lengths of time and our myopic, pathetically limited perception of events in comparison to vast spans of historical and geological time, drives me nuts.

and a good source of articles

[link to www.bibliotecapleyades.net]

lots of stepping off points for more research

dr

want to take a vacation?

[link to www.polarstarexpeditions.com]

can be dangerous

[link to en.mercopress.com]

there were reports that the "ground it hit" was not supposed to be there

and some more info on the sea floor mapping

[link to www.whoi.edu]

I wonder it its in a dynamic flux of landscape/sea bed changing, and how repapidly.

dr

EXCELLENT, I love Bibliotecapleyades

Damn. They really cover EVERYTHING!

That's why I love that site.