[HN Gopher] South Pole Topography
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       South Pole Topography
        
       Author : njitram
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2023-01-27 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (brr.fyi)
 (TXT) w3m dump (brr.fyi)
        
       | njitram wrote:
       | What I wonder, after reading this, is what happens with all that
       | snow that is accumulating and causing all the buildings to be
       | burried? Is the South Pole slowly rising? Or is snow at the
       | bottom somehow dissipating?
        
         | LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
         | It slowly turns to ice, compressed by its own weight.
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         | Thereby enabling us to get
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core and analyse the layers
         | like tree rings, err...
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology
        
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