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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by dmos62 on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:38AM (#22767605)
If Earth's ice caps' ice cover were to melt, how much landmass would that uncover? ice-cap - ice + water = ?
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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by mkl on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:25AM (#22767827)
There is so much ice in Antarctica (up to 4776m thick! [1]) that a large amount of what seems like it would be land is actually below sea level (it's massively weighed down, and some would rebound over time [2]). Here are some estimates of what would be left at first: https://vectormap.info/vector-maps-manual/map-antarctica-wit... and https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/pvqpg/the_archipel...

[1] http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/se...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound

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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by Kaiyou on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:42AM (#22767623)
Antarctica is about 150% the size of Europe.
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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by mr_toad on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:19PM (#22775968)
The combination of melted ice and thermal expansion would mean that a lot of it would be flooded.
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