Twin ice cores from Greenland reveal history of climate change, more
Two projects conducted from 1989 to 1993 collected parallel ice cores—just 30 km apart— from the central part of the Greenland ice sheet. Each core is more than 3 km deep and extends back 110,000 years. In short, the ice cores tell a clear story: humans came of age agriculturally and industrially du...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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American Geophysical Union
1996
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| Online Access: | https://boris.unibe.ch/158842/1/alley96eos.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/158842/ |
| Summary: | Two projects conducted from 1989 to 1993 collected parallel ice cores—just 30 km apart— from the central part of the Greenland ice sheet. Each core is more than 3 km deep and extends back 110,000 years. In short, the ice cores tell a clear story: humans came of age agriculturally and industrially during the most stable climatic regime recorded in the cores. Change—large, rapid, and global—is more characteristic of the Earth's climate than is stasis. |
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