Blood Falls, in the Taylor Valley of Antarctica’s remote McMurdo Dry Valleys, is a gushing stream of crimson-colored salt water flowing from the Taylor Glacier. The bizarre color of the salt ...

Perhaps at a time when this valley resembled more a ... of the glaciers strange behaviors. Most Antarctic glaciers are frozen to the rock below but Taylor apparently isnt, Lyons said.

Spalding Pond in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Photo courtesy of Jeb Barrett. In the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a warm summer in January 2002 contributed to record melt and re-arranged the composition of ...

It’s easy to forget that Antarctica is a desert ... Jill Mikucki flew a giant electromagnetic transmitter up Taylor Valley. The huge loop induces an eddy current that penetrates below ground ...

In 1911, an Australian geologist named Thomas Griffith Taylor was exploring a valley in Antarctica when he stumbled upon a strange waterfall. The meltwater flowing from beneath the glacier that ...

Antarctica's Dry Valleys are the most arid ... In the process, the researchers discovered that briny water underlies much of Taylor Valley. The subsurface network connects the valley's scattered ...

Figure 1: Map of Taylor Valley in Antarctica. The presence of Blood Falls and the implications for a deeper brine ecosystem represented by this feature, motivated the first ever landscape scale ...

Blood Falls at Antarctica’s Taylor Glacier. A large reservoir of liquid water has been discovered by Jill Mikucki and her colleagues beneath Antarctica’s Taylor Valley. Since the only natural ...

Water has not flowed across Antarctica's Friis Hills for 14 million years, researchers reported Tuesday (Oct. 29) at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Denver. The Friis Hills ...

It began in 2017, as they visited Taylor Valley, on the coast of East Antarctica, to investigate a mystery: Measurements by them and other scientists had shown that water seeping through the ...

Soil moisture decreased from 2.2% (by weight) to 1.4% between 1993 and 1999 in an elevational transect in Taylor Valley. We have shown a 14-yr Antarctic dry valley meteorological record and 35-yr ...

Finally, the findings may change views of Antarctica's coastal margins, Mikucki said. Now that scientists know Taylor Valley's groundwater seeps into the ocean, further research may reveal that ...