News tagged with glacial ice
Egg-shaped legacy of Britain's mobile ice-sheet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ice sheets that sculpted the landscape of northern Britain moved in unexpected ways and left distinctive egg-shaped features according to new research.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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New predictions for sea level rise
Fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements have been used to place better constraints on future sea level rise, and to test sea level projections.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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A tiny frozen microbe may hold clues to extraterrestrial life
A novel bacterium that has been trapped more than three kilometres under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120 000 years, may hold clues as to what life forms might exist on other planets.
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Wind shifts may stir CO2 from Antarctic depths
Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age--and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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