Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be The Longest Taken From The Andes
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 13:21
in Earth & Climate
Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. This latest expedition focused on a yet-to-be-named ice field 5,364 meters above sea level in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range.
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