The evolution of Earth's largest hidden landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is poorly understood. Analyses of offshore sediments confirm that the ice incised deep troughs that host fast-flowing ice streams today, while older landscape features have been preserved.
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Swift, D. Antarctica's lost landscape. Nature Geosci 6, 162–163 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1751
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