Devon Island Ice Cap: Core Stratigraphy and Paleoclimate
Valuable paleoclimatic information can be gained by studying the distribution of melt layers in deep ice cores. A profile representing the percentage of ice in melt layers in a core drilled from the Devon Island ice cap plotted against both time and depth shows that the ice cap has experienced a per...
| Published in: | Science |
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| Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1977
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.196.4285.15 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.196.4285.15 |