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News Release 15-075
Surprisingly high geothermal heating revealed beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
With data from NSF-funded drilling project, UC Santa Cruz team reports first direct measurement of heat flow from deep within the Earth to the bottom of the ice sheet
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In this 2013 image, Ken Mankoff, then at the University of California, Santa Cruz, monitors the borehole for the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) program.
Credit: Reed Scherer, NSF
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