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Scientists Discovered a Continent-Sized Megastructure Hiding Deep Beneath Antarctica

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Buried way underneath Antarctica’s ice, researchers have found an enormous, continent-sized network of basins we never knew were there until now.

According to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience, an international team led by geophysicist Egidio Armadillo of the University of Genoa has identified what they call the East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province, or EAFBP. We’ve already known about other Antarctic basins, like the Wilkes and Aurora basins, and also the enormous Lake Vostok, but what we didn’t know is that they are all connected to a larger subterranean megastructure of basins that we couldn’t have discovered without the help of modern tech.

Researchers took older massive datasets........

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