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Title: Oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions
Post by: rangerrebew on December 19, 2017, 07:36:27 pm
Oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions
12/14/2017 02:00:00 PM 
 
Researchers from the United States and China are now studying the core -- nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall -- to assemble one of the longest-ever records of Earth's climate history.

What they've found so far provides dramatic evidence of a recent and rapid temperature rise at some of the highest, coldest mountain peaks in the world.

Read more at https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2017/12/oldest-ice-core-ever-drilled-outside.html#tarJ3u2Y2i8kdZFK.99