The scan showed that in Antarctica, 138 volcanoes rest under 3-4 km of ice, 91 of which are geologically hazardous objects.
It is assumed that these volcanoes are potentially active, so two possible problems cannot be ruled out. First, volcanoes can erupt and flood the ice sheet. This will lead to a global rise in sea levels. The second option: Antarctic ice will melt due to global warming, and this will awaken a dormant volcanic region. As a result, again, the ice will melt, and the atmosphere will also be poisoned by volcanic exhaust spreading across the planet. In addition, clouds of ash will cover the sun, the source of life on Earth.
If volcanoes wake up, and this may be triggered by global warming, then catastrophic changes will sweep the entire planet.
The height of the volcanoes found by experts ranges from 100 to 2850 m, diameter – from 1600 to 5400 m. All of them are covered with a layer of ice, the thickness of which reaches 4 km, and occupy an area of 3500 km in the west of Antarctica, from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula , published on the website of the Geological Society of London.
“We didn’t expect to find these volcanoes,” said Robert Bingham, one of the study’s authors. “Now the number of known volcanoes in Antarctica has almost tripled. We suspect that there are many volcanoes beneath the Ross Glacier and that this region may have the largest concentration of volcanoes in the world.”
In ancient times, Antarctica was a thriving continent: palm trees grew here, rivers flowed, and there were many animals and birds. Due to deep geological displacements in the bowels of the Earth, Antarctica began to slowly drift towards the south pole and eventually ended up there. Over millions of years, in harsh conditions, the continent was covered with a monstrous ice cap, two to three kilometers thick.