Forgotten samples from Greenland's Cold War base reveal warmer summers during ancient ice-free period
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Forgotten samples from Greenland's Cold War base reveal warmer summers during ancient ice-free period
The site of a former U.S. military base in Greenland was ice-free at a time when summers were a few degrees warmer than today, according to a new University at Buffalo–led study of ancient sediment recovered from beneath the site in the 1960s.
For more than two decades, sediment samples from a former US military base in Greenland were almost forgotten. When scientists re-examined them, they discovered just how warm summers there were hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Greenland’s Camp Century was ice-free when summers were a few degrees warmer | WNYmedia Network - Buffalo, NY Reader
A UB-led study of ancient sediment offers new insights into ice sheet retreat at the former Cold War outpost. View original source The post Greenland’s Camp Century was ice-free when summers were a few degrees warmer appeared first on WNYmedia Network - Buffalo, NY.
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