Twin ice cores from Greenland reveal history of climate change, more
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Date of Publication
1996
Publication Type
Article
Division/Institute
Contributor
Alley, R. | |
Mayewski, P. | |
Peel, D. | |
Subject(s)
Series
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
0096-3941
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Language
English
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Description
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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