US EditionA Record-Breaking Drill Beneath Antarctic Ice Revealed a Big Surprise
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Antarctic Drill Reveals 23 Million Years of History
Frozen Antarctica Walloped by Climate Extremes. Credit: Horacio Lyon / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 An international team of scientists has recovered a sediment core from beneath Antarctica that preserves about 23 million years of history, offering the clearest direct drill record yet of how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to past periods of climate warming. The project involved researchers from Binghamton University and institutions across seve…
At 400.68 meters below the surface of the ice, time becomes tangible. That was the exact point at which an Australian team arrived at Dome C North, inside Antarctica, at the end of their second working season of the Million Year Ice Core (MYIC) project. The ice recovered at that depth formed at the end of the last glaciation, more than 13,100 years ago: a time that sounds like a natural history book, with woolly mammoths and already extinct pred…
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