{"id":323469,"date":"2017-06-01T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5f6fab60d9afb4aadd54d914fa6028ce"},"modified":"2017-06-01T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T09:00:01","slug":"meltwater-lakes-under-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-accelerated-glacial-retreat-in-the-earths-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=323469","title":{"rendered":"Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth&#8217;s past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the last glacial period &#8211; when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offshore than it does today &#8211; it has been speculated that subglacial lakes existed beneath it. An international team of researchers has now successfully sampled the metre-thick sediment layers left behind by these lakes contemporary on the seafloor. This is the outcome of a study by Gerhard Kuhn and colleagues, which was published today (1 June 2017) in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last glacial period &#8211; when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offshore than it does today &#8211; it has been speculated that subglacial lakes existed beneath it. An international team of researchers has now successfully&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323470,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323469\/revisions\/323470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}