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East Antarctic Ice Sheet has stayed frozen for 14 million yearsa

December 16, 2015

World’s largest canyon? Under the Antarctic ice sheet

Antarctic mystery solved?

Massive Antarctic volcanic eruptions linked to abrupt Southern hemisphere climate changes

Opal discovered in Antarctic meteorite

New gravity dataset will help unveil the Antarctic continent

January 23, 2016

Researchers in the Antarctic discover new facets of space weather

May 21, 2016

Scientists predict extensive ice loss from huge Antarctic glacier

May 19, 2016

Researchers find seafloor valleys below West Antarctic glaciers

January 18, 2017

Antarctic ice rift spreads

May 2, 2017

Geophysics could slow Antarctic ice retreat

November 10, 2015

Geophysicist Questions Stability of Antarctic Ice Sheet 

January 30, 2016

World’s largest canyon? Under the Antarctic ice sheet

January 14, 2016

Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn’t warmed

May 31, 2016

Six to 10 million years ago: Ice-free summers at the North...

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In 2010, two of the study's authors—David Shuster of UC Berkeley (left) and Yosemite Park geologist Greg Stock (right)—collected rock samples from the rim of Yosemite Valley, where the granite has eroded only slowly over the last 50 million years. In the distance is the upper Merced River valley. Former UC Berkeley graduate student Johnny Webb is at center. Credit: Kurt Cuffey, UC Berkeley

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The modern Seattle fault zone cuts directly through the densely populated Puget lowlands, including Seattle and its metro area. Fifty million years ago, the continent tore in two here, setting the geologic stage for the modern faults, according to a new Tectonics study. Credit: Washington Geological Survey.

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