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Article: EARTH PALEOENVIRONMENTS: RECORDS PRESERVED IN MID- AND LOW-LATITUDE GLACIERS
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- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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EARTH PALEOENVIRONMENTS: RECORDS PRESERVED IN MID- AND LOW-LATITUDE GLACIERS L DeWayne Cecil, Jaromy R. Green, and Lonnie G. Thompson, Eds., 2004, 250 pp., $88.00, hardbound, Kluwer Academic/Springer-Verlag, ISBN 1-4020-2145-3
Ice cores from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheet have yielded records of climate change and atmospheric chemistry that have been essential to our understanding of climate change over the last 250,000 years. The keys to such a record are the continuously cold weather where the snow accumulates on the ice sheet, the slow movement of the sheet, and the sheer depth of the ice sheet. The glaciologic and climatologic communities steered away from glaciers in mid- and ...