Ice Bands (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Ice Bands

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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.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

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