A mysterious source of radioactive heat under the Antarctic is slowly melting the ice

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Researchers believe that the heat source is radioactive rocks and hot water from the Earth's crust.

Although Antarctica does not disappear overnight, it could have significant impact effects in combination with climate change, according to new measurements from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

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Researcher Tom Jordan said, "The melting process we are observing has probably lasted for thousands or even millions of years and does not directly contribute to the change of the ice sheet.

"However, in the future, extra water in the ice cover could make this region more sensitive to external factors such as climate change."

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"It was a really exciting project, exploring one of the last areas of the planet totally unsupervised.

"Our results were quite unexpected, because many people thought that this area of ​​Antarctica was made of old and cold rocks, which had little impact on the pack ice.

"We show that even in the former continental interior, the underlying geology can have a significant impact on the ice.

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