COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Ice Cores Yield Rich History of Climate Change
Description: A research team in Antarctica investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history has reached an important milestone. It has drilled the main ice core to a depth of 10,928 feet at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide. The drilling project studies the climate record contained in the core. The project will be completed over the next two years. [Source: National Science Foundation]
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=118546&org=NSF&from=news
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Source: National Science Foundation
Publish Date: 2/1/2011
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