Antarctica's Past by Olivia, Kiara, Frannie, Akysha, and Kaitlin
Andrill is a program where they "dig the past." Antarctica was once an island. How do we know this? Scientists have been drilling core samples from the sea floor below its surface to see Antarctic's past and predict the future. One of Andrill's scientists, Richard Levy, came to Pound Middle School to show us what they do in Antarctica and about the rocks they study. Antarctica was first an island at the bottom of the world. Then 35-50 million years ago ice sheets began to form. About 15-10 million years ago Antarctica's ice sheets had fully formed. Around 5 million years ago some of the ice sheets retreated. Today we know Antarctica as a frozen piece of land. The picture is of the drill site this year with a snowcat used for transportation. On the snowcat is our Pound Middle School Banner and Richard Levy is standing beside it.