Under the glaciers in Antarctica, there are mysterious heat sources. What are these things?

In that distant era, the land on which we humans now live was still a single piece. The ocean is also a whole ocean. It is now like this because of the movement of the earth’s crust, so it is divided into what it is now. Oceans are very important to us and the earth. But we humans cannot survive on it, so we humans have developed a lot of land.

However, some of the land on this earth is left to our human beings to develop, and it is not very suitable for habitation. Antarctica, the southernmost point of our planet, is a good example. The area of ​​Antarctica is the size of China. In addition, the area of ​​Indonesia is so large. The resources above are also very rich. There are tens of billions of barrels of oil buried below, and there are rich coal resources. and rare metal deposits. However, the Antarctic continent is covered with ice and snow all year round, and it is extremely cold, with an average temperature below minus 50 degrees Celsius. There are often strong winds blowing above it, which can be said to be cold and dry, and it is impossible for ordinary humans to live there for a long time.

But in such a cold place, something strange happened. It is mentioned above that the entire Antarctic is covered by glaciers, and there will be cold winds blowing on it, so any heat will be taken away by the cold. But beneath these glaciers, there are some areas of heat. The ice sheets covering these areas seem to have no problems above, but there is a lot of glacial meltwater below. This area is in the southeastern part of the Antarctic continent, and the land structure in these areas is still very solid and thick.

So where does all this heat come from? Although the current production activities of our human beings have caused the temperature of this earth to begin to rise. However, this temperature increase will start to melt the ice and snow on the Antarctic continental ice sheet, but will not melt the glaciers inside. And the southeastern part of Antarctica is a very old freezing point. The average temperature here is five degrees Celsius lower than in other regions. However, after our human scientists discovered this phenomenon, they have also conducted a lot of research, but still have not found the reason, but I believe that we humans can solve this problem in the future.