Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be the Longest Taken from the Andes (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

Ohio State University

Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be the Longest Taken from the Andes (1 of 3)

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Porters were used to carry frozen core sections down off the ice field to refrigerated storage trucks, the first leg in their transport eventually back to the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State.

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Photo by Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University.

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