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22 Nov 2009

Newly drilled ice cores may be the longest taken from the Andes

- 2 Nov 2009
By Ohio State University   
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image IMAGE: Porters were used to carry frozen core sections down off the ice field to refrigerated storage trucks, the first leg in their transport eventually back to the Byrd Polar Research...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – 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.

 
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