Pink Rocks on a Volcano Led Scientists to a Hidden Jurassic Giant Beneath Antarctica’s Ice

Pink Rocks on a Volcano Led Scientists to a Hidden Jurassic Giant Beneath Antarctica’s Ice

On the dark volcanic peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, pale pink boulders sit perched against all odds. The local bedrock is black basaltic lava, yet these rounded chunks of pink granite dot the ridgelines like misplaced puzzle pieces. For years, researchers collected them to date ice sheet history. But a new study reveals these scattered rocks pointed to something far larger: a buried granite body nearly 100 kilometers wide, hid…