Climate change - Cornucopia of ice core results

被引:9
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Stauffer, B [1 ]
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[1] Univ Bern, Inst Phys, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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10.1038/20807
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Polar ice cores contain records of Earth's climate -- the deeper the core, the further back in time the records go. Early last year a drilling project at the Vostok station in Antarctica reached a depth of 3,623 m or around 420,000 years ago. That means that the ice-core climate record now extends back across four glacial-interglacial cycles.
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