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Antarctic polar icecap is 33.6 million years old, researchers show

2013-05-29 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Seasonal primary productivity of plankton communities appeared with the first ice. This phenomenon, still active today, influences global food webs. These findings, reported in the journal Science, are based on fossil records in sediment cores at different depths. The Antarctic continental ice cap came into existence during the Oligocene epoch, some 33.6 million years ago, according to data from an international expedition led by the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (IACT) -- a Spanish National...

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