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ANDRILL Project Seeks the "Rosetta Stone" of Climate History in Antarctica

October 1, 2007

When the National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program begins its second field campaign this month, scientists will be looking for a "Rosetta Stone" in their sediment cores that will tie together decades of paleoclimate research in Antarctica and the rest of the world to get a more complete picture of how the Antarctic ice sheets responded to past times of global warmth. Full Story

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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