gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 146 Faults and Ice Domes

A group of four followed Fang Hong, walking forward towards the gentle slope of the ever-decreasing ground.

"98% of the entire Antarctic continent is covered by an ice body with an average thickness of 2450 meters, as if wearing a big hat on its head, which is vividly called an "ice sheet"." Fang Hong: "From some angles , From some special places in Antarctica directly under the ice sheet, you can bypass the limitations of the equipment and directly take samples of the ice layer tens of millions of years ago, which is of great significance to scientific research.”

However, many people who have entered here so far have not taken the underground ice layer. As for the reason, no one knows.

In short, the scientific researches of various countries are said to be for the future of mankind, but they cover each other very tightly, and there is no such thing as mutual supply of materials.

In other words, no one has obtained ice data, whether it is the underground here or the Southwest Ice Dome, and no one knows the specific reason.

It's very simple, try it yourself if you want to know.

The further we went, the colder the air became.

"The so-called groundless rumors are indeed groundless rumors."

This is a very strange feeling. After the ground cracks, the temperature in the place will be close to zero degrees, and if you cross an area, and then go up, you will encounter a low temperature of minus [-] to [-] degrees.

It's as if an air conditioner is installed at intervals in this natural large ice cave.

Due to the confluence of hot and cold air, the hot air rises and the cold air sinks, which naturally produces wind.

"It's a strange feeling. Without a thermometer, I can clearly feel the change of the air temperature, just like..." Fang Hong thought for a long time before choking out a sentence: "It feels the same as passing under the main entrance of the mall."

Although the state strongly promotes that the air-conditioning temperature in semi-public places such as shopping malls should not be lower than 26 degrees, this policy is difficult to implement.

In the hot summer, people come and go at the main entrance of the shopping mall, hot air and biological heat source - people keep entering, it is difficult to stabilize the air temperature at a set temperature.

Therefore, shopping malls generally add central air-conditioning outlets at the entrance, so that people can feel as if they have entered a new world instantly.

This is also a way to attract customers. When you walk on the hot street and suddenly feel cool, you will think whether you should go in for a stroll, because it is boring anyway.Go in and come out again, and you will find that you have taken a lot of goods without intending to go shopping at all.

"Passing through these foggy places, you will feel very warm." Fang Hong pointed to the place where the smoke was coming from the ground: "This should actually be pure water vapor, not volcanic gas. As for how it is produced, I don't know. .”

Professor Wang next to him gave an explanation: "The lava of Erebus Volcano is very viscous, and the gas is not easy to escape from it, so the venting of the gas is generally to form huge bubbles that burst and discharge from the lava lake, and here The ground fissures actually produce volcanic gas, but the sulfide content is extremely low, because the high-temperature lava turns the water in it into water vapor, which gushes out from the vicinity of the ground fissure, and when it reaches the ground, the water on the ground will also evaporate in the same way. .”

"When they are in the cold air, they quickly become solid crystals floating in the air and become visible water vapor. The gas of steam and water vapor is not the same gas. Water vapor is a gas, and steam is a gas. Solid water floating in the air."

Fang Hong interrupted: "This is probably taught in the physics class of junior high school."

All the water friends swiped the screen and complained: "Why don't you understand physics science."

"I...I...I am liberal arts."

Shuiyou: "Fuck, liberal arts and science are only divided in high school."

"Nimma, Brother Gun is too shameless, how did you get into the nuclear energy major?"

Professor Wang next to him smiled and gave his explanation: "It's very simple, because the nuclear energy major in the university actually involves very little knowledge of physics, but more knowledge of architecture. And it's geological knowledge , and very biased."

Fang Hong raised his thumb: "Professionals know a lot." In fact, Fang Hong's geological proficiency has reached LV6, but he still hasn't acquired this knowledge.It seems that compared with professionals like Professor Wang, LV6 is as fragile as scum.

"The gap in front seems to be shrinking. Has it reached the end of the ice cave?"

Hua Bo: "I don't think so. The range of influence of Mount Erebus shouldn't be so small?"

From the perspective of conventional volcano knowledge, apart from the volcanic lava lake on the top of the volcano, the magma chamber should extend in all directions. Under the volcano in Kenya, someone once created a record of a magma chamber as deep as 26 kilometers.

For a volcano as large as Erebus Volcano, the underground magma chamber should have a long range of influence, and the entire mountain should have a large number of terrains such as ground fissures.

Judging from the geology here, the basalt here has many bubbles in the place where it was formed, and it cools extremely quickly, so it is more fragile than ordinary basalt. It is reasonable that ground fissures should also exist on a large scale.

"Who can tell, maybe it will suddenly become clear after going deeper here."

Qiu Qing put down some equipment: "Wait a minute, collect samples first."

Qiu Qing began to collect the air, soil, thin icicles and water dripping from the icicles.

Fang Hong also stopped at the same place: "It is reasonable to say that in this climate, it is difficult for living things to exist, but the bare land on the Antarctic continent can basically find traces of living things, and this is also considered as bare land. Maybe there are living things exist."

Next to him, Hua Bo looked around and groped along the ice wall.

Everyone didn't pay much attention to Hua Bai's behavior, but they were all concerned about Qiu Qing's collection of samples.

To be honest, collecting samples is very important for later analysis.

For scientists, they can also judge which samples are more suitable for biological survival and attachment.

This is also the reason why the collectors going to outer space are not valued, and countries always want to develop manned spaceflight.Because there is no way a computer can turn a machine into an experienced scientist.

Judgment is very important to science.

"We have penetrated more than 200 meters into the cave under the ice. If it is on the surface, this is a very long distance. Under the ground, we have almost come to an environment with very poor visual conditions."

Just as Fang Hong was reporting the data to Shuiyou, there was a slap from the side.

Then came Hua Bo's panicked cry: "Ah!"

Fang Hong turned his head, looked around, swept the powerful searchlight flashlight in his hand, and quickly found Hua Bo back and forth.

Just at the heel of the ice wall, under a sudden break, half of Hua Bai's body is outside the ice wall, or on the surface, and half of his body is obviously below the surface.

It seemed that Hua Bo was walking along the ice wall, but he didn't expect that the ice wall at this position was weak, so he leaned against the ice wall and fell down.

"Is this a magma fissure? Didn't you see the fire?" Fang Hong shouted, "Save people first."

Fang Hong didn't dare to make too much movement. The weak ice wall here is broken. What if the ice wall next to it is also very weak, causing the ice wall to collapse?

Fang Hong strode forward, and then grabbed Hua Bo after a small sliding movement.

Fang Hong felt a little troubled after grabbing his clothes.

To avoid the cold, the clothes everyone wore were very fluffy. In addition, Huabo relied on his arms to keep himself from falling off, so the clothes could not bear the weight.Fang Hong grabbed Hua Bai's wrist with one hand on his clothes and the other: "Is the foot empty?"

"empty!"

"Feel the heat?"

"There is no heat, it should be about the same temperature as the outside."

Isn't it a magma crack?Is it a mountain cliff?It is normal for a mountain to have a cliff, but now Mount Erebus is covered by ice.

　The next chapter will be anti-theft for half an hour, from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-], brothers who can’t wait can watch it tomorrow.Wufang maintains a daily update of [-]D, and I hope that everyone will not be obsessed with anti-theft for half an hour.

　　
　
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