Peak in Antarctica honors Augustana College Nov 29, 2008
The peak is located in the Transantarctic Mountains, about 300 miles from the South Pole. School officials say Hammer has conducted research in the Antarctic since the 1970s. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Buried Antarctic Mountain Range Shouldn't Exist at All Oct 25, 2008
The Transantarctic Mountains, no less strange but above the ice. The Transantarctic Mountains, no less strange but above the ice. (Fox News)
Huge mountain range shouldn't be there Oct 22, 2008
John Goodge, University of Minnesota, and a colleague collect specimens in the Transantarctic Mountains. Goodge's team found rocks providing evidence that East Antarctica was once connected to the western United States as part of an ancient supercontinent called Rodinia. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Antarctic waters were 'once warm' Jul 31, 2008
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth 98% is covered by ice Antarctica is divided in two by the Transantarctic Mountains The highest peak is 4,892 metres Antarctica is home to more than 70 lakes that lie below the continental ice sheet Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born on the Antarctic mainland, at Base Esperanza in 1978. "This is too warm to be the Antarctic water we know today," said Cat Burgess, who led the study. (BBC News)
Rock links Antarctica and North America Jul 29, 2008
John Goodge and a colleague collect rockspecimens in the Transantarctic Mountains ... Granite rock beltJohn Goodge of the University of Minnesota-Duluth and his team were searching in Antarctica's Transantarctic Mountains for rocks carried along by ice rivers that could provide clues to the composition of the underlying crust of , which in most places is buried under 2 miles of ice. (MSNBC -- Environment)
South Pole Club Med? Jul 24, 2008
The well-preserved fossils of ostracods, a type of small crustacean, came from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica's Transantarctic Mountains and date from about 14 million years ago. The fossils were a rare find, showing all of the ostracods' soft anatomy in 3-D.. (Fox News)
Single Boulder May Prove That Antarctica And North America Were Once Connected Jul 18, 2008
Writing in the July 11 edition of the journal Science, an international team of U.S. and Australian investigators describe their findings, which were made in the Transantarctic Mountains, and their significance to the problem of piecing together what an ancient supercontinent, called Rodinia, looked like ... The boulder find came by serendipity while the researchers were picking though rubble carried through the Transantarctic Mountains by ice streams-rivers of ice-that flow at literally a... (Science Daily)
Blood pressure treatment may help keep mind clear Jul 14, 2008
John Goodge and colleagues at the University of Minnesota at Duluth analyzed rocks in the Transantarctic mountains, which divide East and West Antarctica, and found they were a good match with rocks of the same age in the southwestern United States. (John W. Goodge) |Print|| Text size + July 14, 2008. (Boston Globe)
Cat-Sized Reptiles Once Lived in Antarctica Jun 11, 2008
The evidence for this scenario comes from preserved burrow casts discovered in the Transantarctic Mountains, which extend 3,000 miles (4,800 km) and contain layers of rock dating back 400 million years. "We've got good evidence that these burrows were made by land-dwelling animals rather than crayfish," said lead researcher Christian Sidor, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Washington and curator at UW's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. (Fox News)
Could Volcanic Activity In West Antarctic Rift Destabilize Ice Sheet? Mar 5, 2008
The comparison shows that volcanic activity in rifts is most common where the land is a mile or more above sea level, and rising, which can readily be seen in Antarctica along the Transantarctic Mountains, and in the Pacific coast mountains of Marie Byrd Land. The large sub-sea-level interior of the rift does not, therefore, seem to be a likely place for present-day volcanic activity. (Science Daily)
A chilling omen or a freak event? Nov 13, 2007
Antarctica is supposed to be the world's driest continent and, although various subglacial lakes of fresh water are now well-known, the inland, being uniformly cold, unlike the more northerly Antarctic Peninsula, was considered a place without naturally occurring liquid water (apart from a few isolated, temporary streams occasionally forming in the unique Dry Valleys area of the Transantarctic Mountains). Konrad Steffen, a Swiss scientist at the University of Colorado, working with colleagues... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Snowmelt In Antarctica Creeping Inland, Based On 20 Year Of NASA Data Sep 25, 2007
2 miles above sea level in the Transantarctic Mountains. The 20-year data record was three times longer than previous studies and reaffirmed the extreme melting irregularity observed in 2005. (Science Daily)
Locked In Glaciers, Ancient Ice May Return To Life As Glaciers Melt Aug 14, 2007
"The five ice samples used in the experiment were taken from two valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains by Marchant, the Boston University glaciologist. "He sent us blocks of ice," said Bidle of Marchant. "Without them, we couldn't have done the work. Dave is also one of the few researchers who is knowledgeable about the age of the ice, and also important information about the formation and geology of the ice. (Science Daily)
Warming climate may give life to frozen germs Aug 8, 2007
Antarctica's Dry Valley of the Transantarctic Mountains are home to the oldest known ice on Earth. Researchers melted five block of ice cut from glaciers there to find entombed microbes 100,000 to 8 million years old. (Xinhuanet, China)
Frozen microbes nursed back to life after eons Aug 7, 2007
Frozen for 100,000 years, microbes that werecollected in the Transantarctic Mountains shown here were revived with warmth and nutrients. . (MSNBC -- Environment)
Ancient glacier creatures brought back to life Aug 7, 2007
Working with Prof Paul Falkowski, Prof Dave Marchant of Boston University and Prof SangHoon Lee of the South Korea Polar Research Institute, Dr Bidle melted five samples of ice from the Transantarctic Mountains ranging in age from 100,000 to eight million years old to find the microorganisms trapped inside ... Dr Bidle said the finds were also relevant to the quest to find the remains of life on Mars: "Years of detailed work on geology and formation of the debris-covered glaciers in the... (Telegraph.co.uk)
New Zealand formed from 'giant plateau' Jul 28, 2007
The rest of the plateau's remains make up one of the longest mountain chains in the world, Antarctica's TransAntarctic mountains, according to geophysicist Michael Studinger of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University ... "Their described model struggles to provide an explanation for the current high elevation of the TransAntarctic Mountains," he said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Clues Found to Mystery of Antarctic Mountain Formation Jul 26, 2007
The Transantarctic Mountains, high but flat ... "The Transantarctic Mountains are nearly an order of magnitude larger than other mountain ranges formed the same way," said geophysicist Michael Studinger at Columbia University s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ... The scientists compared all this data with known processes of mountain formation to discover the best explanation behind the Transantarctic Mountains. (Fox News)
Mysteries Of Antarctic Mountains Revealed Jul 25, 2007
The 3,000-kilometer-long Transantarctic Mountains are a dominant feature of the Antarctic continent, yet up to now scientists have been unable to adequately explain how they formed. Transantarctic Mountains, Northern Victoria Land, view from close to Cape Roberts. (Science Daily)
How did tallest peak in Antarctica take shape? Jul 24, 2007
Although less fantastic, the Transantarctic Mountains remain striking ... "The Transantarctic Mountains are nearly an order of magnitude larger than other mountain ranges formed the same way," said geophysicist Michael Studinger at Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. (MSNBC -- Environment)
August GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY Media Highlights Jul 24, 2007
Boulder, CO, USA - Topics include: first images of an active oceanic detachment fault; new theory of Transantarctic Mountains formation; why western Siberian rivers flow into the Arctic Ocean via estuaries rather than coastal deltas; and cause of the large earthquake and tsunami that destroyed coastal cities of sixth-century Phoenicia (modern-day Lebanon) ... Plateau collapse model for the Transantarctic MountainsWest Antarctic Rift System: Insights from numerical experiments Robert W. Bialas... (EurekAlert!)
Researchers plumb mysteries of Antarctic Mountains Jul 20, 2007
The 3,000-kilometer-long Transantarctic Mountains are a dominant feature of the Antarctic continent, yet up to now scientists have been unable to adequately explain how they formed. In a new study, geologists report that the mountains appear to be the remnant edge of a gigantic high plateau that began stretching and thinning some 105 million years ago, leaving the peaks curving along the edge of a great plain. (EurekAlert!)
* Globe trotting -- Antarctica @zz -- nw Jan 27, 2007
It is split by the Transantarctic mountains into Eastern and Western Antarctica. The massive ice sheep that covers the vast majority of the continent is an average of 2. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
