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redOrbit: Researchers are beginning their analysis of what are probably the first successful ice cores drilled to bedrock from a glacier in the eastern European Alps.
With luck, that analysis will yield a record of past climate and environmental changes in the region for several centuries, and perhaps even covering the last 1,000 years. Scientists also hope that the core contains the remnants of early human activity in the region, such as the atmospheric byproducts of smelting metals.
The project, led......
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Glacier Cores From Eastern European Alps May Yield New Climate Clues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 10th, 2012
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