Phys.org  May 6, 2022 West Antarctic was an ocean before it was an ice sheet. So the bedrock below the ice sheet is covered with a thick layer of sediments. A team of researchers in the US (Colorado Schools of Mines, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) has found a huge amount of groundwater, including saltwater from the ocean in the thick layer of sediments. They suggested that there is a column of water about 220 to 820 meters (700 to 2,700 feet) deep. They estimated that most of this salty water arrived in the past 10,000 years, based on how much […]