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What is the name of the glacier in Antarctica that features Blood Falls?

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What is the name of the glacier in Antarctica that features Blood Falls?

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/asu-ult041709.php An unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea water, but hidden under an inland Antarctic glacier, appears to support microbial life in a cold, dark, oxygen-poor environment – a most unexpected setting to be teeming with life. The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are devoid of animals and complex plants and scientists consider them to be one of the Earth’s most extreme deserts. The Valleys receive, on average, only 10 cm (3.93 inches) of snow each year. Despite the lack of precipitation, during the Antarctic summer, temperatures rise just enough for glaciers protruding into the valleys to begin melting. The meltwater forms streams that enter lakes covered by ice that is two-to-three-stories thick. Even less forgiving are the conditions found below the Taylor Glacier, an outlet glacier of the East Antarctic Ice

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