why is Antarctica the place to go to, to understand the earth's present, past and future?
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Antarctica is a place to understand earth's present, past, future because it holds in its ice-cores half million-year-old carbon records trapped in its layers of ice. Antarctica has rich variety of flora and fauna is a rich heritage of past.
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"Nature is infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere"
Yes, the above quoted lines put forth us infinite, boundless nature but this unfathomable nature at some time had its centre and its origin and to acknowledge the mysteries the nature holds within one must brush past through the history of Antarctica. Antarctica: the continent where world's heart beats.
650 million years ago ,southern supercontinent Gondwana existed with its centre roughly around Antarctica. But around the time when dinosaurs wiped out and mammals got underway, land mass separated into countries and the present day globe that we know popped up. To get a grasp of where we have come from and where we are heading, one must give a visit to Antarctica . The significance of Cordilleran folds and Precambrian granite shields can lead to better understanding of history. In future we can imagine India pushing northwards jamming against Asia to buckle its crust and form Himalayas ,South America drifting off to join North America, opening up Drake passage to create a cold circumpolar current keeping Antarctica frigid and desolate. In the matter of climate change Antarctica holds a strong position not only because it is the only place not bearing human population but also because it burries within itself half million year old carbon records. With bulging problem of global warming and overpopulation leading to a battle for use of limited resources ,it is the need of hour to feel this problem and put in our efforts to put a halt to this.
"Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal and transformation in our lives."