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Name: annual rings on antarctic iceberg
Scientific name:
Details: annual rings
Status: in Antarctica in front of a thunderstorm
Dynamic:
Special: in the upper meters of the iceberg the annual increments of snow are visible. Some of the lower stripes are thinner, indicating less snowfall. Because these table icebergs com from the antarctic mainland, where they have bee built up over thousand of years, in such layers some information of the history of the earth are stored: for example tiny air bubbles in the ice can be analysed today for the carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen content of the atmosphere for that ancient year. From these studies we learn that the shifts to ice-ages from moderate climate have often been very much faster than recently believed - within a few decades
Articles: copy from a print of "Into the Unknown" The Story of Exploration , National Geographic Society
Books to go on: Wir Klimamacher, Grassl & Klingholz, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurth, 1990
Bill Gates: The Road Ahead, Al Gore: Earth in the Balance
Copyright: Uwe Kils
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