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  Volcanic Melting at edge of ross ice sheet

   I have been tracking imagery of the ross ice sheet since 1994.

   In Sept 2006, I put up a terrible page with a few images.

   I have been motivated to mention this here because of the most recent imagery.

   Right now it is almost winter down there, and -30 on the ross ice sheet, but many areas are above zero, and grey meltwater stains are visble along a 600 mile stretch of the transantarctic mountains.

   This page shows evidence of a previous torrential outflow out of the 50 mile wide swath next to Ross island from septmber 2006. Later images show what appear to be pumice swirls..

   I have emailed many people about this, and I get nonanswers or no reply. As if no one is supposed to say anything.

   In latest imagery, there is a 2nd, far bigger..

   http://www.lermanet.com/antarcticmelt/index.htm

   I sincerely hope i am wrong about what I see in these images. Especially the most recent Sat Imagery HERE: http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/ice_images/icebergs/ross/2007/R ...
  The same image above with 5% detail enhancement is on my own antarctic melt page above.

   I gained a bit of notoriety for noticing things in imagery once before that made the Washington Post back in 2000, The Man With No head http://www.lermanet.com/nohead.htm, however I sincerely hope I am wrong about what I see this time.

  Regards
  Arnie Lerma
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