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Antarctica on fire? Continent burned regularly 90 million years ago
- Wildfires burned regularly in swampy rainforests near Antarctica’s South Pole about 90 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.
- An international research team, including scientists from Northumbria University, found evidence of recurring fires in a sediment core from Cretaceous Antarctica.
- The fires were the southernmost ever recorded on Earth and apparently helped early peatlands spread through the wet forests.
- Researchers found increasing amounts of microscopic charcoal and believe lightning from thunderstorms likely started the fires, rather than nearby volcanic activity.
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Antarctica on fire? Continent burned regularly 90 million years ago
Earth's climate was so warm then that huge infernos regularly swept what is now snow and ice-covered Antarctica.
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