thu 14 jan 2016, 18:15

Researchers discover huge ijsravijn

BOULDER –

A group of international scientists under the ijsvlakte of Antarctica is a huge ijsravijn discovered. They speak of a 1100 km long gorge. No canyon on earth is so great, so reports the journal Geology, the magazine of the prestigious Geological Society of America.

Photo: Akzo Nobel

With the aid of a satellite and radar, the researchers working on the size of the colossal canyon. It is very likely that the ijsravijn wider than the famous Grand Canyon in the United States, which at its widest point about 30 miles wide. This gap in the state of Arizona is approximately 70 million years old. The length of the Grand Canyon is approximately 435 kilometres.

The gorge below the south pole stores according to the researchers, everything. Later this year, they present the exact dimensions of the ijsravijn, located below the area known as Princess Elizabeth Land.