About Ice Cores Part III
Ice cores preserve stories of the past. Now we want to compare these stories with other history books. Illustration: Hanna Knahl
We have now already learned a lot about ice cores. We know where to find them, how to drill them and how to extract information about the past climate from them. BUT there is still one important piece of information missing. The time stamp. How do we determine how far back in time the ice we hold with our gloved hands comes from? We will see, the ice also uses special languages to encode this secret.
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