Arctic mountains documentary
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a Swedish team was tracking from the coast across the interior of the eastern half of the Arctic and detonating explosives every 200 miles to measure the thickness of the ice. In the middle of the East Arctic ice sheet, the team was traveling across ice two miles thick when something strange started to happen. They suddenly found this very thin ice in the middle of the ice sheet, one of the team shouted. There are mountains here, big mountains! The team had stumbled upon what were later dubbed as the Rotering Mountains, a range of steep peaks that rise to 3000 meters and stretch 1200 kilometres across the interior of the continent. Those would study the area for years, said. It's really hard to imagine that there are mountains under there. Doesn't matter which way you spin. It's pretty flat. Yet, they added. The truly mysterious part of the Hidden Mountains is not that they exist, but that they still exist. The inexorable march of geologic time erodes mountains away. If we came back in 100 million years, the Alps will be gone. The Rotering Mountains at the ripe old age of 900 million to one billion years old should have been worn down eons ago. However, recent research indicates that the mountains are a kind of geological anomaly.