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Growth rings in rocks reveal past climate
2016-05-05 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Alexandria, VA - For years, scientists have used mineral, sediment and ice layers, deposited intermittently throughout geologic time, to track the global climate record. These can come from caves, lakes, the oceans and ice sheets. But over the course of the last decade a new method has been developed that presents an opportunity for geoscientists to assess global climate history in almost any arid landscape. The technique relies on testing a thin, sometimes only millimeters th…
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