No, actually liquid water forms more easily at higher pressure and there is an Antarctic subglacial hydrological system which originates geothermally. Lake Vostok is the famous instance, but it has emerged there are flows among these reservoirs as well deep in the Antarctic interior.
See Grey et al: "Evidence for subglacial water transport in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet through three-dimensional satellite radar interferometry". GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 32, L03501, 2005 http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2004GL021387.shtml mt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
