The Second Deep Ice Coring Project at Dome Fuji, Antarctica
Throughout the history of the polar icecaps, dust and aerosols have been transported through the atmosphere to the poles, to be preserved within the annually freezing ice of the growing ice shields. Therefore, the Antarctic ice sheet is a “time capsule" for environmental data, containing inform...
Published in: | Scientific Drilling |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2007
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.5.05.2007 https://doaj.org/article/0c9315da6b8f47a5a67504b15c7fa28b |
Summary: | Throughout the history of the polar icecaps, dust and aerosols have been transported through the atmosphere to the poles, to be preserved within the annually freezing ice of the growing ice shields. Therefore, the Antarctic ice sheet is a “time capsule" for environmental data, containing information of ancient periods of Earth’s history. To unravel this history and decode cycles in glaciations and global change is among the major goals of the Dome Fuji Ice Coring Project. |
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