Re: [Geology2] Geologists Prepare to Drill Into Ancient Antarctic Lake

Yes....I thought the same thing! Allison

From: Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
To: geology2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Geology2] Geologists Prepare to Drill Into Ancient Antarctic Lake

 

What a great premise for a sci-fi/horror movie where something ancient and/or extraterrestrial and nasty gets unleashed on a modern defenseless world.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net> wrote:

 

Geologists Prepare to Drill Into Ancient Antarctic Lake  
 
A team of British researchers are preparing to dig down through
three-kilometer-thick ice to sample a lake under the Antarctic in the
 hope of finding new species and clues about the future impact of climate
 
change. 
 
A team of engineers with 70 tons of gear are to head for Lake Ellsworth
in West Antarctica. The lake has been isolated from the outside world
 for at least 125,000 years--but it could be as many as a million. It's
about 10km long and two to 
three kilometers wide. 
 
The team's mission is to prepare the way for the "deep-field" research
 mission that will take place in October 2012. They will then use hot
water to melt through 3,000 meters of ice in order to reach the lake,
which remains liquid due to geothermal heat coming from inside the
Earth. This technique has been used before in Antarctic experiments, but
  
never this deep. The hot-water drill will need to operate continuously
for three days to create a 36cm wide borehole through the ice. 
 
Read more:
http://ow.ly/6UU9k
  
 
 

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