Insight Into ‘Ghost’ Mountains Buried Under Three Miles of Antarctic Ice
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There are mountains the size of the European Alps in Antarctica, but you can’t see them. In fact, they weren’t even discovered until the 1950s. How can you hide mountains reaching nearly 15,000 feet high? Try a three mile layer of ice on top.
Given the fact that the Gamburtsev Mountains are hidden, they have earned themselves the nickname “Ghost” Mountains, but what the history of these mountains has long puzzled scientists. Now, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and a team of international scientists believe they have solved mystery of mountains that they say are just about 250 million years old, according to BBC. BBC reports that scientists hoped to gain an understanding of the mountain range’s history to give them insight into climate studies. But what‘s really novel about the research is how they went about researching a mountain range they couldn’t even really see:
“Surveying these mountains was an incredible challenge, but we succeeded and it’s produced a fascinating story,” Dr FaustoFerraccioli from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) told BBC News.
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This multinational effort in 2008/2009 flew aircraft back and forth across the east of the White Continent, mapping the shape of the hidden mountain system using ice-penetrating radar.
Other instruments recorded the local gravitational and magnetic fields, while seismometers were employed to probe the deep Earth.
The AGAP team believes all this data can now be meshed into a credible narrative for the Gamburtsevs’ creation and persistence through geological time.
The Gamburtsev Mountains with the ice sheet represented on top. (Image: British Antarctic Survey via National Geographic)
National Geographic describes how the team used MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to see even beyond the topography of the mountain, but into its crust. What the research showed, National Geographic reports, is that the Gamburtsevs seem to be on top of an even older mountain range, which they believe dates back more than a billion years. This mountain range is believed to have eroded, but the mountains began to form again millions of years later to become what they are today and later became encased in ice:
“The whole [mountain range] was encased in ice and literally preserved in the deep freeze,” Ferraccioli said.
“Otherwise they would have been eroded, and we wouldn’t have seen much at all.”
(Image: DeConto/Pollard via BBC)
UPI reports Carol Finn with the U.S. Geological Survey as saying that the fact that this range was created by a series of events — not a “single tectonic event” that scientists are used to seeing — could be useful for learning other mountain belt histories.
BBC has more:
“This research really solves the mystery of how you can have young-looking mountains in the middle of an old continent,” said US principal investigator Dr Robin Bell from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
“In this case, the original Gamburtsevs probably completely eroded away only to come back, phoenix-like. They’ve had two lives,” she told BBC News.
Next, the researchers seek to drill inside the mountain, hoping to analyze air bubbles that could provide details about the past environment. The research was published in Nature.
Note: This article has been updated since it’s original posting, adding “million” after 250.
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Susie
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:36pmWant to know the truth about evolution, the age of the earth and more ?
Check out Creation Ministries International at
creation.com
Might just surprise you
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:26amMy money’s on that no one knows the real truth.
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:34pmBring on the Global Warming, I want to climb these suckers!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:58pmIf someone was recording history… before Adam… I would like to know. But, a Scientist or Clergy giving their OPINION upon PreHistory (PreHistoric) events… is just Theory & Speculation… interesting, yet meaning Nothing (not providing a Truth)!
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:23pmProblem is each so called day is actually a different figure i.e. 1 day = 500,000 years in human time!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:44pmAll I know is… if you apply the historical dates that are know… to the Bible… it works out Noah was born in 3,070 bc, and Adam in 4,126 bc.
Report Post »Get off your butt and join the Marines
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:22pmThis is an interesting article but I don’t know why it is posted here since I would imagine that blazers are as anti-science as the tea people they worship. Besides, isn’t the Earth only about 6,000 years old? and all of the mountains and valleys formed from the great flood in which this dude Noah saved all animals, even dinosaurs? hahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:06pmI do not talk to God… nor can I read the Mind of God… nor can I see with the Vision of God… so, when the Bible cites the 7 Days of creation… I do not comprehend how anyone can place a litteral value on this and project a time frame. So, unless you, or someone you know, is in contact with God… I question your time reference.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:06pmWow, what a moron. A brave new generation. I know twenty-somethings who are disgusted at how so-called ‘people’ like you give their whole generation a bad name. There are consequences for your behavior. But even when they slap you in the face and knock you to the ground, you won’t understand why. You’re pathetic.
We’re all to blame, you know. We slept while they infiltrated our universities, schools, news outlets, the pop culture and our moral structures. We let it all slip. We let it happen. It happened fast. We will all pay the price. Fops like this one will die when the dollar collapses in all likelihood.
Report Post »EpsilonEridani
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:52pm@Get off your butt and join the Marines
Report Post »Hi Troll,
You would be completely utterly wrong in regards to Blaze readers not being into science. Not every conservative is a gun toting overly religious redneck, as not every liberal is a wannabee hippie with little life experience that thinks they know how the world works.
From your posts, it obvious your the later however..
One day you will grow up, and realize what a tool you are for the 1% that masquerade as champions of the common man. One day you will realize what a fool you are for protesting wall street, when your protests should be against both liberal and conservative political powers. Do something good for the country, stop worrying about wall street, vote out and protest the politicians that have made wall street happen. It’s not all evil repubs and conservatives, its those people’s champions like Obama, Pelosi, and other liberal political leaders that are using you and all the other dumb kids that don’t know anything yet think they do.
WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:40pm@Epsilon I agree with the point you’re making but I contend that your suggestion that carrying a firearm is somehow a troglodytic practice is ignorant. There is nothing foolish about self-defense. Again, I agree with the general point of your post, namely that only fools are so naive as to suppose that faith and political/cultural conservatism are fundamentally incompatible with science. What utter nonsense.
Report Post »djmaine
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:47pmI am a scientist and I read the Blaze. I read it because I like truth. Science and religion do and must reconcile. It is just that people have to step out of limited senses to see it. Nothing is black and white in the universe and we are fools to believe we are all knowing. The more you learn about science the more you can believe in a higher power. I’ll leave it at that. Good luck.
Report Post »sgtstubbs
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:31pmMost idots have no idea of what “time” is. Next the old test, that the earth was created in 7 days, now any jerk know there is no time in history. We invented it. The Good Book definds time as if you saw a bird land on a mountian and sharpen his beak once a year. When the moutian was leveled that would be the same as one second in universial time….
Report Post »Get off your butt and join the Marines
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:17pmIt was shocking to see the New York police raid the peaceful and nonviolent headquarters of the Occupy movement in lower Manhattan early this morning.
They may imagine that in so doing they’re stamping something out. But just as it boosted the pipeline fight when many of us had to go off to jail, so too will this only add steam to the Occupy movement worldwide.
Bill McKibben is visiting Occupy Vancouver this evening, as part of the ongoing fight against pipelines out of the tarsands; he’ll be bringing our message of solidarity with the whole Occupy movement.
As he said when he spoke through the human microphone early in the New York occupation, “since Wall Street has been occupying the atmosphere for many years, it’s entirely necessary that we occupy Wall Street.”
Please visit http://occupywallst.org/ for more info, and follow @occupywallstNYC on Twitter for latest updates from New York.
UPDATE: Tomorrow, November 17th, marks the two month anniversary of the original Wall Street occupation, its eviction yesterday only reinforces its power. To mark this anniverary, Occupy Wall Street has put out a call to action:
“We will gather in Liberty Square at 7:00 a.m., before the ring of the Trading Floor Bell, to prepare to confront Wall Street with the stories of people on the frontlines of economic injustice. There, before the Stock Exchange, we will exchange stories rather than stocks.“ At 3pm they will gather at 16 major subway hubs to ”…take ou
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:23pmTHE PATHETICNESS OF THIS POST IS AMAZING…. just post your just about OWS on any story you see…. YOU GUYS ARE STUGGLING
Report Post »J_Ruben_Kincaid
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:50pmScabies has clearly affected your thinking.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:38pmYour movement is entirely evil with only a thin facade of misplaced and false righteous indignation. That’s why murder, rape, the dregs of society and drug stupor characterizes everything you do despite the lame spin by filthy, lying Democrats, Progressives and the freak show media. It all will consume and destroy you and we will watch.
You’re like a putrid infection which finally rises to the surface as a boil of stinking puss after long festering and growing just under the skin. You have no idea whatsoever what master you serve. But in the end, your ignorance will not save you. You OWS people think you are rising. You are sadly mistaken. You are crashing and burning and falling into a pit of despair and you are absolutely clueless about the true reality of the thing because you are more akin to mad dogs than humans.
Report Post »otmonger
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:50pmThanks to global warming we will be able to clime them soon. Right?
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:46pmYou just HAVE to become more in tune with“SCIENCE”, and its’ alway evolving terminology.
Report Post »DO NOT use Global Warming. This term is longer applicable since the Wikipedia release of the CRU E mails telling how numbers were fudged, changed etc, to hide the FACT there is no warming,and they can’t account for the data showing that.
The U.N. CRU,Al Gore,D Suzuki, IMMEDIATELY started using the NEW Scientific Term “Climate Change” Hard to dispute THAT! Get with it ,eh! No apology necessary. I gotta admit, I wish Global Warming was true. Had to shovel the walk TWICE already. Going to be a long ,COLD one again!
rustyspokes
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:00pmNo, science does not refute Christianity. What challenges, is the spin that is added to it, using science in an attempt to lend validity. Not much of a challenge to someone that believes in the Word, but to a non-believer, how else would you connect the dots?
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:53pmWhat dots? Non Christians have none to connect. Their worldview keeps them in darkness, so they can’t see ANY, to connect them to TRUE TRUTH.
Report Post »Beacuse they can present no cogent defense to Atheism[because there isn't any] they can only rely on ad hominem attacks. I suggest they Google Chris Hitchens debates with Christians, IF they really are in the search for truth,and listen to one of their more renowned apologists, take it on the chin from Teleological, and Scientific points of views.
pap pap
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:13pmIf the original mountains eroded away then the Antarctic must have been without it’s Ice Blanket for quite a few millenium. It would be nice to flash back and see what it was like back then. Probably need a time machine with hyperdrive.
Report Post »THEUNKNOWNPATRIOT
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:50pmYou know, we wouldn‘t have to be using ground radar to see the mountains if the cavemen would have held on to their SUV’s.
Report Post »K Chad Roberts
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:43pmNot necessarily. Ice erodes as well. Look at continental US’s northwest.
Report Post »Once A Marine Always An American
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:14pmIf the original mountains erroded away then the atlantic was without water.
Report Post »This moutain is under 3 miles of frozen water (thats ice for you under-educated types). Which would suggest that these mountains were/are sub-aquatic (that means under water) mountains. Thus there would has not been/ is not any land mass in the antarctic. To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that there was far less water on earth than there is today.
djmaine
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:55pmNot so quick…Glacier Ice can and has formed many times all over the globe. So it is possible that as the South pole melts a glacier can form somewhere else. They will need core samples to see if there was terrestrial life there as some point.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:46amThey call them ‘ghost mountains’ but I have it on good authority that only 3 ghosts have been found in and around that area.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:59amOOOh, AAAh…So what do we do with this information, and exactly how does it really impact our lives for the better?
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:21amThere’s no need to be cynical and snarky. Sometimes the stories like this one on the Blaze are just here for an interesting read.
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:45amI’ll take knowledge and truth, no matter the source or topic. There is no advance gained from knowing less truth. Sure, it is the responsibility of every capable human being to decipher what is true and what is not, but that is all part of the mortal experience. Personally, I find Antarctica to be fascinating, and I would not be surprised if ruins existed on the continent, also buried beneath ice.
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:46amadvance should be advantage
Report Post »trscga
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:45amCheck out this web page about how old the mountains really are:
Report Post »http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/kw/mountaintops
mocon
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:06amRight. They would have to be young, otherwise there would be erosion.
Report Post »tv1a
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:19amThe link you submitted doesn’t prove anything. It makes comments without supporting statements.
Report Post »trscga
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:34amYou are correct that it is just a summary but this article also doesn’t prove anything. It also makes comments without any real proof.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:11amWhat in the hell is Beck putting this crap on here for. I thought he was a Christian. How can there be mountains 250 million years old when Earth is no more than 3000 years old. Does he not believe in Jesus for Christs sake/
Report Post »caleejr
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:27amdon’t like? Don’t read. If the content offends you cancel your subscription and demand a refund.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:29amSmall minds flock together. I hear the fetid 99ers calling you.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:41amI agree with the Biblical age of the planet earth also.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:46amReally? “A day to God is like a 1000 years and a 1000 years like a day”…SOMEDAY we’ll all know the TRUTH…Now? We only THINK we know EVERYTHING!
Report Post »tv1a
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:50amThe earth could be million or billions of years old. We don’t know how much time elapsed between Genesis 1:1 – Genesis 1:2. The Bible tells of an angel who was cast to earth like a lightning bolt. I believe the earth was perfect before Satan was cast to earth. When that happened, the earth became dark and void. (Ge. 1:2) It’s not a heaven or hell issue, but a good article anyway.
Report Post »rustyspokes
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:02am@rfycom,
Report Post »I am Christain, and of coarse the earth is older than 3000 years. After the fall of Lucifer came the catabol, and hence the three earth ages. Take the word, “Void”, in Gen 1:2 back to the root word in the Masoretic text. Some term this span of time between Gen 1:1 and 1:2 as “The Gap Theory”. Carbon dating backs this up.
123456beatriz
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:18amHey! moron, If you don’t like DON”T read it.
Report Post »mattintexas
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:41amAny half wit Christian would also know that God laid claim that a million years to humans is a blink in his eye. There fore NOBODY can possible say exactly how long the “7 days” of creation actually lasted.
1LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
4For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
6In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.
7For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
9For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
TO CONTINUE: lOOK UP PSALM 90
Report Post »HuskerDave
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:33amDon‘t get drawn into RFYCON’s trap. He thinks he can show Beck to be a hypocrite.
Most Christians don’t share this view of the world as being so young. In fact, many don’t believe that the theory of evolution (and it is just a theory) and Creationism are even opposites. Of course the world has been around for millions of years. Of course there were dinosaurs and other primitive animals. Of course species ‘evolve.’
None of that challenges our belief in God. None of it can explain how an organism as beautiful and intelligent as a human could exist without a divine presence. You think science refutes Christianity. I believe it confirms it.
Report Post »UUes
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:01pmTo MATTINTEXAS: What translations is that?
Report Post »If God created the earth and it took more than 7 days then why did Moses use the word days? He used the words to be specific otherwise why even make the statement? Plus God created the light (Sun) after He created the plants. It couldn’t have been very long between those two days because we all know that plants need sunlight to grow.
woodyl1011fl
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:01amThe storytellers must have creative imaginations just treat these historical conclusions as an imaginative tale such as “The Neverending Story”. I’m thankful American tax dollars a not paying for this “Ghost Story.”
Report Post »PolitelyPlanning
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:10pmHa! “Neverending Story”…one of my favorite movies! A good read is “In the Beginning” by Walter T. Brown. I have found this book to be very plausible and it provides geologic and scientific fact in a very logical way.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:58amaccording to Al Gore, we should be able to see these mountains shortly,…. after the ice melts off them
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:41amHoly hidden mountains, Batman- we‘ve discovered Superman’s Fortress of Solitude!
Report Post »Drslot
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:11amIt‘s UFO’s you dummies. UFO’s. Can’t you see now? OK, ummm, never mind. Sorry.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:08amThis is what Colorado will look like when we see global cooling. Global warming my a@@.
Report Post »String Bean
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:42amOMG !! Don’t tell me that 33 to 35 million years ago there was global cooling on the planet.
RUN ! RUN!!! RUNNNNNN !!!!!
Report Post »Annie Fields
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:34amYou gotta read “Fingerprints of the Gods” by Graham Hancock. He’s the Glenn Beck of PRE-history and he has some FASCINATING stuff on the Antarctic & the Piri Reis map (WOW), as well as the Great Pyramids and much more.
SERIOUSLY. If Glenn were an historian (as opposed to a self-taught aggregator – which is wonderful enough) he would tackle pre-history the way this guy did.
I read it 15+ years ago and there’s my life BEFORE I read it and my life AFTER. It was a WATERSHED experience of my fundamental understanding of our earliest history and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Even my crusty Yankee father, the smartest person I’ve ever known, with a healthy suspicion about EVERYTHING, was blown away by it and went on to recommended it over the years. Big deal if you knew him!
Report Post »dadadadio
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:23pmI am fascinated by these things too. I’ll get that book. Thanks!
Report Post »blaaaaackwoman
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:24amWait a minute, 15,000 foot high mountains with 3 miles, about 15,000 feet, of ice on top? Where’s the base of the mountains, 14,000 feet below sea level? I googled it and the tallest mountains in Antarctic are 16,000 feet high.
Report Post »notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:02amIf you truly are as your Login indicates, you’d better not get too uppity citing facts and referencing the ability to think on your own. Jesse, AL & the Party of those with Street Cred will be knocking at your door wanting an explanation.
Scratch that – they’ll just slander you. Better lawyer up. I hear Gloria Allred is free since her circus with Bialek failed miserably.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:10amThough the arctic is usually the climate change poster child, it would be interesting to see what effect on thermal capacitance the sub-ice-sheet mountains have in the antarctic. Additionally, (and because this just came to me) it’s known that mountains grow in size over time. I wonder what effect on glaciers being closer to the sun has on thie rate at which they melt. Is the decrease in glacier surface area due to both the ending of the last ice age and being pushed closer to the sun? What is the relative energy difference (thermal radiation/heat capacity of water) between where the glacier started and where it is now? Just some thoughts bleeding on paper…
Report Post »Charb
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:06am250 years old… so either The Blaze proofing department still doesn’t exist, or these mountains are just barely older than the United States. ;) (I know you guys are busy, but so are all the other 250 people on the planet).
Report Post »UnderGod
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:18amThere’s only 250 people on the planet?
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:28amYou beat me to it – anyone on the Blaze want to let us have the correct figure? How difficult is it to check copy before you publish?
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:30amor maybe the mountains are only 15 feet high and that’s why no-one spotted them before….
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:28amOK, found the actual figure from the BBC – it should have read “250-100 million years ago”. See, I can cut and paste better than the Blaze.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:04amWell glad the us taxpayer didn’t have to foot the bill for this little adventure(I hope) and now we have something to look foreward to when all the ice melts .
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:14amI‘m sure the voyagers on the Nimrod wouldn’t have minded if there had been some mountains to take shelter on or in!! Especially since they were there within the last 250 years. ;)
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:46amAl Gore has to stop these mountains. This can’t be good for polar bears.
Report Post »(Yes I know, wrong hemisphere for polar bears, but I couldn’t resist. Maybe I should have said penguins.)
CatB
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:04amFormed by “man-made” global warming 250 years ago. ;-)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:09amOops .. I mean “climate change” ;-)
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:20amThey have found Man-Bear-Pigs’ lair.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:42amthis is interesting, by using air bubbles that have been trapped we can see what the atmosphere was like in the past… this could help create a timeline of global warming and cooling that has happened over the past 40 million years, so that we can get an idea of how the climate of the earth changes naturally, to give us an idea of WHAT or IF humans are having an impact on the change in climate…
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:40am” “Ghost” Mountains,”
I hereby claim these mountains in the name of Me!
Now git off my land!
Report Post »GhostOfLiberty
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:15amNo! They’re mine! This is where I stalk ghosts!
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