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Fire may smolder under Antarctic ice

Quakes hint at moving magma that could influence glacial flow

ICY HOT  Data from seismic recording equipment, which researchers dragged across West Antarctica, reveal that magma may be moving under the ice.

Jeremy Miner

By Beth Mole

- More than 2 years ago

Quivers in the remote West Antarctic have all the hallmarks of volcanoes and magma under the ice, according to a study appearing November 17 in Nature Geoscience.