{"id":238942,"date":"2026-06-14T01:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/giant-fan-shaped-structure-found-under-east-antarctica"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:38:48","slug":"giant-fan-shaped-structure-found-under-east-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/giant-fan-shaped-structure-found-under-east-antarctica","title":{"rendered":"Giant fan-shaped structure found under East Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-fan-shaped-structure-found-under-east-antarctica.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-026-01991-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Geoscience.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is made up of a system of enormous subglacial basins buried in ice over three kilometers thick in parts.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the basins form a giant fan-shaped structure on a continental scale. The team have named it the East Antarctic Fan-shaped Basin Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The findings are published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The structure is made up of a system of enormous subglacial basins buried in ice over three kilometers thick in parts. Together, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}