EARTH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Amery Ice Shelf, Vinson Massif, Weddell Sea
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Driver of global climate, fastest warming rates. Driest (plateau), coldest (-128. 6 f in 1983), windiest (185mph), highest continent (7500ft. Glaciated since at least oligocene (28 to 40 million years ago) A: land continental effect; earth"s tilt gives less sunlight; isolation from ocean currents, circumpolar ocean. Both separated by ross sea (under nz, bordered on its west by e. antarctica and. ), weddell sea ( iceberg alley ), bellinghausen, scotia, amundsen, and. Ice shelves: @ ocean"s boundaries, floating ice extension of glaciers; ice cliff seaward edge. Vinson massif @ 16,080ft @ base of aa peninsula: ex: lake vostok (biggest) and lake whillans (mineral for energy; 3,931 species, along coasts, geothermally heated, mtn. areas (dry valleys, nanutuks, paulet.
