MUCH OF ANTARCTICA is covered with a thick sheet of ice that obscures what's below, and it's tempting to consider the continent as geologically frozen as its landscape. But in the land of snow and ice, there's a hidden fire. Reporting their findings in May, geology student Max Van Wyk de Vries and his colleagues at the University of Edinburgh used radar surveys to reveal 91 previously unidentified volcanoes in the West Antarctic Rift System, an area where plate tectonics are tearing the continent apart. Some seem to have erupted in the last few millennia.
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机译：南极大地上覆盖着一层厚厚的冰层，遮盖了下面的东西，因此很容易考虑到该大陆在地质上与地形一样被冻结。但是在雪和冰的土地上，有一个隐患。地质学生Max Van Wyk de Vries和他在爱丁堡大学的同事在5月份报告了他们的发现后，利用雷达测量结果揭示了西南极裂谷系统中91座先前未被识别的火山，该地区的板块构造使大陆破裂。在过去的几千年中似乎有些爆发了。
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