Chapter 524: Moby Sinai
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Then this person is definitely a lotus.
Although the Antarctic of 10,000 years ago is not much different from the Antarctic of today from a macroscopic point of view, there are still many changes in the details.
Amundsen Scott Station, USA, completed on January 23, 1957, is a permanent South Pole Observatory.
But in fact it has long since deviated from the South Pole, because the Antarctic ice sheet has been moving towards South America at an average rate of 10 meters per year.
Ten meters is a small amount for the 14 million km Antarctic continent.
But if you multiply this number by 10,000 years! 100,000 meters!
Well, still small ...
Well, if you take out a single point to look at it. For example, the pole, or a glacial plateau, then the 100,000 meters will make a considerable difference.
Antarctica, East Antarctica, inland in Queen Maude.
The sky is out of the polar night, and the sun finally lights up this pure white world.
The hurricane has long since dissipated, and the surface of the icebergs slowly emits a thick icy mist.
If you don't take into account the biting temperature, this scene is quite picturesque.
Between the glaciers at the highest elevation in the interior, a figure looks left and right, as if pondering something.
"It should be here, right?" Lotus pinched her chin and looked around, as he was between the crevices of the overlapping glaciers, a place that would never have been reached by humans on foot.
This distance.. He silently calculated in his mind that the thickness of the ice sheet in Empress Maude's land increased from the coast to the inland, and the maximum thickness should have reached 2,260 meters.
"Almost." Lotus muttered to herself, raised her hand and shot at the ice beneath her feet.
"Z~~~"
The blue-white plasma flashed, and a bottomless ice cave silently appeared in the frozen snow for thousands of years.
Again, the ice cave gradually expanded.
moment
Lotus looked at the hole with a diameter of about three meters and stopped destroying it with satisfaction, opened the mask and jumped in without hesitation.
He fell slowly, glaring at the smooth walls of ice around him.
100 meters, 200 meters, 500 meters...
Inside the pitch-black ice cap tunnel, figures are constantly falling downward.
800 meters, 1000 meters, 1200 meters...
The lotus stopped, the bright light swept around, and his surroundings were no longer empty ice, but a city frozen in history, Mobi.
1,200 meters under the ice, 12,000 years.
Time, space, and weight have crushed the glorious civilization that once appeared on this earth into a picture without any breath of life.
The lotus flower was silent for a moment, and then slowly left the place.
This huge city 10,000 years ago did not have any needs from him.
He came here only because he wanted to.
No will can stop it.
The lotus flower exited the tunnel, and then flew in the direction of Prince Charles Hill without looking back.
According to his research on the changes of Antarctica over the years, if the Germans really built the Aryan underground city based on the ruins of the Raqqa people, it could only be that place.
The Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range is a 3,500-kilometre-long mountain range that divides Antarctica into East Antarctica and West Antarctica.
However, beneath the plateau near Wilkes in East Antarctica, this mountain range is home to the important city of the Raqqa people, Sinai.
Sinai, which represents a treasure in the Raqqa language family.
Lotus also saw this not prosperous, but quite important city in Api's images.
In fact, it is not so much a city as a glacial inland lake, and a saltwater lake that connects to the ocean.
Lake Sinai, about 300 kilometers in size, is buried under the ice sheet of the Wilkes Plains and was excavated by the Raqqa people 10,000 years ago.
Lake Sinai never froze, but the people of Raqqa did not mythologize it.
In their view, the lake was once maintained at a special point for a long time, which allowed it to receive a lot of solar energy in the summer.
In winter, when the lake freezes, the salt content increases, so the density of the water increases, causing the warm surface water to sink and the bottom water to rise, achieving the effect of stratification.
This, combined with the flow of the ocean, is what makes this peculiar subglacial inland lake.
This explanation is reasonable.
But the lotus has a different view. Of course, his idea needs to be confirmed by a series of followers.
As the bearing gets closer to the Antarctic Circle, the polar night and hurricanes hit again violently.
The lotus flower circled around a few times, and finally stopped near a glacier at an altitude of nearly 4,800 meters.
Through the wind and snow, it is a continuous iceberg, and it is boundless pure white.
It seems to be as beautiful and dead as the rest of Antarctica.
The lotus skirted the outer glacier in front of her along the upward slope of the ice under her feet, and stepped on the ice under her feet as if it were a broken arch.
Almost, right? The lotus flower looked around and thought secretly. Based on the celestial phenomena and plate movements, as well as the approximate orientation in the film, this should be the place.
Lake Sinai, which has been flowing for 10,000 years, has long been buried under the ice again by nature.
Its upper water level froze into ice, and a fault space formed in the middle.
Because the high temperature water level in the lower layer maintains its wateriness, after a long time, the water potential of cold at the top and hot at the bottom is formed again.
To put it more simply, if the location is correct, then the ice sheet under his feet is actually just a layer of ice no more than 50 meters, and outside a certain range is the ice sheet that is hundreds to thousands of meters deep.
Underneath the ice is a hollowed-out space, which does not exceed 100 meters in height.
And 100 meters below is Lake Sinai that was restored to before the Raqqa people excavated.
The altitude of Lake Sinai is very high, reaching at least 3,500 meters according to the calculations of the lotus.
It is impossible to determine exactly when the Antarctic ice sheet formed this size.
However, one thing is certain.
That is, the Antarctic continent was not covered with ice and snow a long time ago.
At that time, Lake Sinai, an inland lake above sea level, had already appeared.
Gradually, ice covered the Antarctic continent. It overflowed the plains, overflowed the plateau, leaving only the mountains on the plateau.
The thickness of this accumulation is the thickness of the ice sheet, which is the thickness of the ice carried by the Antarctic continent.
Lake Sinai, with its extraordinary altitude, has created an inland lake space in its own unique way within the ice sheet.
If the Germans had really found Lake Sinai, they would have used a submarine to reach this space beneath the Antarctic ice through a secret tunnel connecting the lake to the ocean.
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