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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by arunix on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:59AM (#22768289)
Bear in mind that underneath the ice, Antarctica is an archipelago, not a continuous land mass.

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18757/what...

Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by lmilcin on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:56AM (#22769807)
My understand is this is largely because the land mass was pressed down by kilometers of ice. With the ice gone we can expect it to spring up very quickly same way Scandinavia did and is to some extent still doing today.

I have no idea how much can be expected to come up but my very quick and inaccurate estimation would be something like 1/8th to 1/5th of the ice thickness pressing it down.

Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by LeifCarrotson on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:48AM (#22770440)
If the land mass springs up, does somewhere (everywhere?) else on the planet drift down to make up for the change in volume?
Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by oblongx on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:58PM (#22772216)
Indeed. It's one of the Atlantis theories. Idea is that as North American ice disappeared the land lifted up, Atlantis was on the other end of that plate and went down into the sea respectively.

Randall Carlson has some interesting theories.

Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by sliken on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:35PM (#22773191)
Keep in mind that "spring up very quickly" to a geologist is on the order of inches per year.

There are several places currently where glaciers have melted and are experience uplifts on the order of inches a year.