{"id":7975,"date":"2017-08-16T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2017-08-16T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:48:27","slug":"current-affairs-scientists-revealed-largest-volcanic-region-under-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/current-affairs-scientists-revealed-largest-volcanic-region-under-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs: Scientists Revealed Largest Volcanic Region Under Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 18pt;\">Scientists Revealed Largest Volcanic Region Under Antarctica<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scientists have quested out the largest volcanic region on Earth, with near about 100 volcanoes lying two kilometers below the surface of the wide ice sheet in West Antarctica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Britain, adding to the 47 others that had been uncovered amid the previous century of exploring the vast region, revealed the shocking 91 previously unknown volcanoes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The height of these newly discovered volcanoes ranges between 100 to 3,850 meters with the highest almost competing with the 3,970 meters high Switzerland\u2019s Eiger mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The region known as the West Antarctic rift system, stretching 3,500 km from Antarctica&#8217;s Ross ice shelf to the Antarctic peninsula is concentrated with these active peaks. All of the peaks are covered in the thick layers of ice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We had not expected to find anything like that number. We have almost trebled the number of volcanoes known to exist in west Antarctica,&#8221; said the Robert Bingham, from the University of Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the geologists, there\u2019s, even more, can be suspected on the bed of the sea lying under the Ross ice shelf coming out as the densest region of volcanoes in the world, dominating over the east Africa&#8217;s volcanic ridge, currently the densest concentration of volcanoes in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\">What Can They Result In?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Bingham warned, \u201cIf any of these volcanoes erupt, it would destabilize West Antarctica&#8217;s ice sheets.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adding to it he said, \u201cAnything that causes the ice to melt, that the eruption surely will result in the acceleration of the flow of ice into the sea.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The question is, how active are these volcanoes and that is something need to be determined as quickly as possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Volcanoes are currently active in the region including Iceland and Alaska that recently deprived of their glacier covering. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Same can happen in west Antarctica as the ice sheets begin affecting because of the significant warming in the region, a result of the climate change.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If the ice continuously melts off, could release pressure on the volcanoes and lead to eruption which can further destabilize the ice sheets and the whole ecosystem.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists Revealed Largest Volcanic Region Under Antarctica Scientists have quested out the largest volcanic region on Earth, with near about 100 volcanoes lying two kilometers below the surface of the wide ice sheet in West Antarctica. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Britain, adding to the 47 others that had been uncovered amid the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7976,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}