What is under the 23 miles of ice on Antarctica,what does the land look like was there ever civilization there

Question

typo i was asking two question when i was typing ment to put 23 in the other one and 1.3 here

what would it look like if all the ice was removed and would it float back up to the surface

how did all of the water/ice get there in the first place

Answer 1

Penguin ****. Actually, There are a few places in Antarctica not covered by snow or ice, nothing there but solid rock.

Answer 2

Good question. There isn't 23 miles of ice though. "Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice, which averages at least 1.6 kilometers (1.0 mi) in thickness."

There has never been a civilization on Antarctica.
More than 170 million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana. Over time, Gondwana gradually broke apart and Antarctica as we know it today was formed around 25 million years ago.

When the ice is gone the land will rise up higher then it is now. The ice got there when it rained, snowed formed ice and it never melted in the summer and each winter it added more.

read about the geology here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

Answer 3

23 miles !?? The deepest ice in Antarctica is less than 3 miles deep.

Answer 4

No they was no civilization there, the land is depressed due to the extreme weight of the ice. Its most likely barren and perhaps rocky since there would be little topsoil.

Answer 5

THERE IS LAND UNDER THE ICE AS TO WHAT THE LAND LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE SONAR AND SIDE SCAN RADAR TO LOOK AT AND IT'S DOUBTFUL IF A CIVILIZATION EVER FLOURISHED THERE.