One Thousand Centuries of Climatic Record from Camp Century on the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Dansgaard, W., Johnsen, S. J., Møller, J., Langway, C. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1969
• Subjects: Greenland; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.166.3903.377; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.166.3903.377

A correlation of time with depth has been evaluated for the Camp Century, Greenland, 1390 meter deep ice core. Oxygen isotopes in approximately 1600 samples throughout the core have been analyzed. Long-term variations in the isotopic composition of the ice reflect the climatic changes during the past nearly 100,000 years. Climatic oscillations with periods of 120, 940, and 13,000 years are observed.