{"id":85053,"date":"2018-11-23T19:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/beneath-antarcticas-ice-is-a-graveyard-of-dead-continents"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:42:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:42:58","slug":"beneath-antarcticas-ice-is-a-graveyard-of-dead-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/beneath-antarcticas-ice-is-a-graveyard-of-dead-continents","title":{"rendered":"Beneath Antarctica\u2019s Ice Is a Graveyard of Dead Continents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beneath-antarcticas-ice-is-a-graveyard-of-dead-continents.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eastern section of Antarctica is buried beneath a thick ice sheet. Some scientists simply assumed that under that cold mass there was nothing more than a \u201cfrozen tectonic block,\u201d a somewhat homogeneous mass that distinguished it from the mixed up geologies of other continents.<\/p>\n<p>But with the help of data from a discontinued European satellite, scientists have now found that East Antarctica is in fact a graveyard of continental remnants. They have created stunning 3D maps of the southernmost continent\u2019s tectonic underworld and found that the ice has been concealing wreckage of an ancient supercontinent\u2019s spectacular destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, led by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.satellitengeophysik.uni-kiel.de\/de\/mitarbeiter\/jebbing\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">J\u00f6rg Ebbing<\/a>, a geophysicist at Kiel University in Germany, reported their discovery earlier this month in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-34733-9#Sec5\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/23\/science\/east-antarctica-supercontinent.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/23\/science\/east-antarctica-supercontinent.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eastern section of Antarctica is buried beneath a thick ice sheet. Some scientists simply assumed that under that cold mass there was nothing more than a \u201cfrozen tectonic block,\u201d a somewhat homogeneous mass that distinguished it from the mixed up geologies of other continents. But with the help of data from a discontinued European [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85053","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}