Very unusual holes/openings/entrances found in Antartica, page 2
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reply posted on 26-8-2009 @ 01:01 AM by CosmicEgg
reply to post by tauristercus



I'm with you guys. They look completely out of place to me too. Paired with all the previous assertions that 'something fishy is going on down there', it would be foolish to just wave them away as natural formations. Had there been no such reports over the years, it would then be equally senseless to leap straight to the conclusion that it must be "something".


reply posted on 26-8-2009 @ 01:15 AM by tauristercus
Originally posted by Phage
reply to
post by verylowfrequency


Ice forming in partially collapsed lava tubes is an excellent call.



Granted the similarity .... but unfortunately not one of your images appears to be an example of an Antarctican lava tube.

Therefore, to try and validate your conclusive statement, I have tried (very unsuccesfully) to find even a single mention of lava tubes in Antartica.
As you appear to be extremely knowledgeable on an incredibly diverse range of topics, could you please submit evidence or sources referencing existing Antarctican lava tubes ? Thanks ....


reply posted on 26-8-2009 @ 01:31 AM by Phage
reply to post by tauristercus


Lava tubes are not at all unusual in areas with volcanic activity. The image I showed shows a complete collapse but partial collapses do occur.

I tried to find something specific to that region of Antarctica but could only come up with this. Though the location of the holes is pretty far removed from the crater itself, it's pretty fascinating.
There are alternative explanations for this mass concentration, such as formation by a mantle plume Mantle plume A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle . As the heads of mantle plumes can partly melt when they reach shallow depths, they are thought to be the cause of volcano centers known as Hotspot and probably also to have caused flood basalts.... or other large-scale volcanic activity.

www.absoluteastronomy.com...

This kind of activity (similar to Hawaii) is very likely to produce lava tubes but you've gotta read the rest of the story!



[edit on 8/26/2009 by Phage]



reply posted on 26-8-2009 @ 01:45 AM by tauristercus
reply to post by Phage



Going along with the possible "lava tube" origin, I've again tried without success to find any corroborating info regarding such a phenomena on the Antarctican continent.

Failing that, I did a little research to determine the potential sizes of lava tubes and came up with


Lava tubes can be up to 14-15 metres wide, though are often narrower, and run anywhere from 1-15 m below the surface.

A lava tube system in Kiama, Australia, consists of over 20 lava tubes, many of which are breakouts of a main lava tube. The largest of these lava tubes is 22 m in diameter.


But if the 1st opening is in fact a lava tube, then it's almost guaranteed to be THE BIGGEST one in existance as a rough GE measurement gives an approx width of 90 metres and a height of approx 30 metre ... this makes it more than 4 times wider the the widest currently known ... thus making this "lava tube" a runaway MONSTER !!!!

So again, this particular opening is extremely "unusual" no matter how you look at it !


reply posted on 26-8-2009 @ 01:59 AM by tauristercus
reply to post by Phage



Another curiousity ... apparently lava tubes are almost ALWAYS associated with a local and active volcano.
And yet, the 1st opening was only created a few years ago ... is monstrous in size ... and seems to have NO associated volcano ANYWHERE within the region.

Just seems less and less satisfactory (or plausible) to assume that this is nothing more than a "simple" lava tube formation as none of the "known" conditions for lava tube formation seem to apply here.


reply posted on 26-8-2009 @ 02:21 AM by Phage
reply to post by tauristercus



Ok. Not lava tubes. You made me open Google Earth. Now you're gonna get it.


Back to Google Earth. Look at the rocky area about 30 miles northeast of the big hole. Are those holes? Or are they ponds of melt water (or even exposed sea water)? Look at the before and afters.

Are we looking at a hole or are we looking at an ice pond, before and after the summer melt?

[edit on 8/26/2009 by Phage]
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