Tiny they may be, but fossil diatoms discovered deep under the ocean floor are revealing new details about Antarctica's warmer past.
Since the article states that some of the Antartica Diatoms are normally found in warmer seas
It would be interesting to find how 'high up' the core, these warmer Diatoms are to be found.
This would give an indication (in thousands of years) of the last time the Antartican coast was ice free?
Maybe it would go a long way into solving when the "Piri Reis" map was drawn, showing the Antartican coastline in such detail?
Just how did those ancient cartographers map the coast such visual detail?
Details which we can only roughly plot using radar?
Then again, prehaps we made the mistake in assuming the Piri Reis map was Antartica?
Here are two URL's, each with a different opinion
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm (For)
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/PiriRies.HTM (Against)
Either way was Antartica was mapped 300 years before it was discovered?
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