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What is an ice core?

What is an ice core? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A core sample removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere, the properties of which can be used to reconstruct a climatic record of a given area.
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Data from the GRIP ice core from Greenland show that this cold period was not uniformly cold and 24 interstadials are recognized.
In 1974 he turned to Mount Logan as a promising ice core site for paleo-environmental studies.
The evidence comes from a 364m ice core containing a record of freezing and melting over the previous millennium.
It will be reassembled in the spring and the hole finished off and the ice core recovered.
With a simple light table and an ice core, Dr. Koerner can also see how summer temperatures have shifted over time on an individual ice cap.
For glaciologists, examining an ice core extracted from the depths of a glacier is like reading the table of contents of a history book.

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