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Article: Algae and pollen grains reveal sudden spike in Antarctica's temperature 15.7 mln yrs ago
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Washington, October. 1 -- A team of scientists has found evidence in the form of algae and pollen grains of a sudden, remarkably warm period in Antarctica that occurred about 15.7 million years ago and lasted for a few thousand years.
The evidence was found by Sophie Warny, LSU (Louisiana State University) assistant professor of geology and geophysics and curator at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, and colleagues.
Last year, as Warny was studying samples sent to her from the latest Antarctic Geologic Drilling Program, or ANDRILL AND-2A, a multinational collaboration between the Antarctic Programs of the United States, New Zealand, Italy and Germany, one sample stood out as a complete ...