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Billion year old Antarctic mountains
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Billion year old Antarctic mountains
November 17, 2011 at 9:42 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15749757

Gamburtsev 'ghost mountains mystery solved'.

Quote:The Gamburtsevs are the size of the European Alps and yet they are totally buried beneath the Antarctic ice.

Their discovery in the 1950s was a major surprise. Most people had assumed the rock bed deep within the continent would be flat and featureless.

Survey data now suggests the range first formed over a billion years ago, researchers tell the journal Nature.
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RE: Billion year old Antarctic mountains
November 17, 2011 at 9:44 am
So there are STILL places of wonder and surprise on this rock??

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RE: Billion year old Antarctic mountains
November 18, 2011 at 12:14 am
If the roots of completely eroded, billion year old Orogenies can still push up alps scale mountains whenever a spreading center forms somewhat near, shouldn't we see big alpine mountain ranges near other spreading centers located near ancient orogenies?

For example, shouldn't The great rift valley be pushing up the roots of pan Africa orogenies?
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RE: Billion year old Antarctic mountains
November 18, 2011 at 12:35 am
(November 17, 2011 at 9:42 am)frankiej Wrote:
Quote:Survey data now suggests the range first formed over a billion years ago, researchers tell the journal Nature.

Slight correction: those mountains were formed 8,000 years ago ... when GOD CREATED THEM YOU HEATHEN FUCKER!!!




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RE: Billion year old Antarctic mountains
November 18, 2011 at 12:48 am
(November 18, 2011 at 12:35 am)Cinjin Wrote:
(November 17, 2011 at 9:42 am)frankiej Wrote:
Quote:Survey data now suggests the range first formed over a billion years ago, researchers tell the journal Nature.

Slight correction: those mountains were formed 8,000 years ago ... when GOD CREATED THEM YOU HEATHEN FUCKER!!!




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Correction 6000 years.

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RE: Billion year old Antarctic mountains
November 18, 2011 at 4:04 pm
(November 18, 2011 at 12:14 am)Chuck Wrote: If the roots of completely eroded, billion year old Orogenies can still push up alps scale mountains whenever a spreading center forms somewhat near, shouldn't we see big alpine mountain ranges near other spreading centers located near ancient orogenies?

For example, shouldn't The great rift valley be pushing up the roots of pan Africa orogenies?

If there were any pan African orogenies near the Great Rift valley, it could well do that. Do you know of any? I don't.
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