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Ice Bands

Caption: Horizontal banding of ice layers reveals thousands of years of ice formation at Greenland's Pakitsoq ice margin. Geoscientists frequent Greenland's ice sheets to build records of paleoclimate.

Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

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