This is evidence of the forested environment that covered Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous due to the overall warmer global temperature and milder climate.
A tunnel valley is a large, long, U-shaped valley originally cut under the glacial ice near the margin of continental ice sheets such as that now covering Antarctica and formerly covering portions of all continents during past glacial ages.
This book argued that a cataclysmic shift of the Earth's ice cap covering Antarctica caused by a planetary alignment and solar storms, would lead to crustal displacement on May 5, 2000.
The sixth chapter of the Almanac covers the Arctic and Antarctica.
My orbit does not cover Antarctica, but I can land you there.
WITHIN the past decade, the thick ice sheet that covers Antarctica has yielded more than 5000 fragments of meteorite.
The rate of melting by the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica may throw existing projections for sea level rise out the window.
Rapid global warming, scientists surmise, could have a dramatic effect on the planet's icecaps, especially the one covering Antarctica.
He could watch glaciers cover Antarctica until the ice was a mile thick.
At times in the distant past, plate tectonics and warmer climates have combined to cover Antarctica with lush forests, dinosaurs, and even marsupials.