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Published online 23 January 2006 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news060123-3
Corrected online: 25 January 2006
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Ice core shows its age
A second Antarctic sample excites climatologists.
Scientists have drilled right to the bottom of an Antarctic glacier, creating a hole that is three kilometres deep. The ice core that they extracted is shorter than that from a similar hole made in 2004, but oddly it seems to be just as old.
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