Telltale Rock (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Telltale Rock

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In Baffin Island's Naqsaq Valley, University at Buffalo geologist Jason Briner samples a boulder left by a glacier around the time of early Viking settlement. Measurements of chemical isotopes within the rock suggest settlers in neighboring Greenland faced cold weather.

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Nicolás Young

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