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In the Arctic zone of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russian researchers found oases in areas of intense melting of ice. The press service of Tomsk State University.
Researchers reported that they discovered mounds between which There are small lakes with lush vegetation.
Scientists believe that such oases were formed in the tundra due to the melting of underground ice and subsequent uneven subsidence of the soil. During the extraction of sand underground was affected perennial ice, which began to intensively enrich with minerals the soil. This led to an active growth of vegetation: herbs, shrubs, cereals. Among this vegetation, as in the people They say they’ve gone crazy: dandelions, daisies, polar poppies, different species of wormwood, cereals and other vegetation.
This anomaly suggests that in those places in a short time you can get an incredibly rich crop of grass that you can use as feed. Scientists do not exclude that in In the near future, animals for which data will appear in the Arctic territories were previously unfavorable.
ESOREITER used to talk about a melted huge glacier Iceland.
Andrey Vetrov
Arctic Time
