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Australia Plans To Drill 2,000-Year-Old Ice Core In Antarctica

Posted by timothy on from the best-place-for-it-really dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australia announced Saturday a new project to drill a deep ice core in Antarctica, which may shed light on past climatic conditions in the continent. The project, Aurora Basin North project, will involve researchers drilling a 2,000-year-old ice core, in order to search for the scientific 'holy grail' of the ice core."

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  1. Re:Cores by dargaud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's plenty of papers about them, but they give different scopes. Usually Antarctic cores are more precise and less sensitive to random fluctuations. They also measure more things (temperature, humidity, direct CO2 levels...). In the case of TFA, a 40m core is less than impressive if you compare it to 4km long cores from Vostok or Concordia, but the gist of the article is that it will be very precise for each year.

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  2. Re:Cores by symbolset · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Believe it or not, oil drillers are even more interested in scientific findings about their cores than most of us are.

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  3. Re:Cores by symbolset · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe you were thinking religion. That is definitely how religion works.

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