Ancient Lakes of Antarctica -Living Biological Labs Millions of Years Old


	Ancient Lakes of Antarctica -Living Biological Labs Millions of Years Old

tabsey

5-8-2008 11:56 AM

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The diagram makes it appear that we do have to fear the sky falling.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/013b6ab6-d302-4dd1-926a-9fb5c36aec2c/CBD3F23D-2EE3-4610-8123-B7E4AAB50704/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/ancient-buried.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/ancient-buried.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/ancient-buried.html"><P><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/07/antarcticlakes_vostok_3.jpg"><IMG width="385" height="242" border="0" src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2008/05/07/antarcticlakes_vostok_3.jpg" title="Antarcticlakes_vostok_3" alt="Antarcticlakes_vostok_3" /></A>Buried beneath several miles of ice in Antarctica are lakes ranging in size from Lake Ontario to lakes the size of Manhattan. Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake on Earth, is believed to harbor ancient life that has been isolated from open exchange with the atmosphere for several million years. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/ancient-buried.html"><P><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/07/lake_vostok_3d_topo.jpg"><IMG width="264" height="280" border="0" alt="Lake_vostok_3d_topo" title="Lake_vostok_3d_topo" src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2008/05/07/lake_vostok_3d_topo.jpg" /></A>
Lake Vostok (left) , discovered in 1996 by Russian and British scientists underneath the Russian station Vostok in Antarctica,  is one of 140 subglacial lakes located beneath the Antarctic ice-sheet. At 250km long and 50km wide, some 4000 meters underneath the surface ice, and could be one of the most important scientific finds of the last several decades. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CBD3F23D-2EE3-4610-8123-B7E4AAB50704/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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