Antarctica Sans Ice
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April 08, 2008

Antarctica Sans Ice

Antarcticarocksurface_4 This is what the rock surface of Antarctica and sea ground without its ice-shield would look like. This map does not consider that sea level would rise because of the melted ice, nor that the landmass would rise by several hundred meters over a few tens of thousands of years after the weight of the ice was no longer depressing the landmass.

Source: Wikipedia.com

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