From high above, the icy kingdom of Antarctica appears as a vast, flat wilderness. A white sheet, draped over the planet's southern pole. Researchers have discovered an ancient river system ...

The 'ghost' of ancient river-carved landscape discovered has been preserved beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet since the continent froze over 34 million years ago. Beneath East Antarctica's ...

Satellite data have revealed an ancient landscape that may have escaped erosion and been preserved beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet since the continent froze over 34 million years ago.

"Getting a clearer picture of the landscape beneath the ice is crucial if future predictions of change in the ice-sheets and sea level are to be improved." Marine-based ice streams are the fast ...

There's something ancient in the icebox: Three-million-year-old landscape beneath Greenland Ice Sheet Date: April 17, 2014 Source: University of Vermont Summary: Scientists were greatly surprised ...

concealed landscape spanning 32,000 square kilometres under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. This newly discovered landscape, believed to have been shaped by rivers over 14 million years ago ...

The discovery of three-million-year-old organic soil preserved beneath the ice sheet, however, shows that instead of eroding the landscape as expected, the ice sheet merely froze the land.

Global warming could reveal an ancient river landscape buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet for a million years, according to a study. The author of the study and who researches ice sheet ...