Mud cores drilled in Mississippi hold long-hidden clues about the origins of gigantic Antarctic ice sheets around 34 million years ago, new research shows.
Clues about the formation of major ice sheets on Antarctica have been found in mud cores drilled in Mississippi, providing an important lesson about a major climate cooling event, sometimes known as the Grande Coupure or great cut.In a paper publishe
Clues regarding the development of massive ice layers in Antarctica have been uncovered in mud samples taken from Mississippi, shedding light on a major climate cooling event often referred to as the Grande Coupure or "great cut." A recent study in Nature Communications, led by researchers from
The South Pole is frozen because of the Grande Coupure, but this is why it is. There are still a lot of mysteries on the planet that are unexplained, but that is not the case for Antarctica's frozen region and this is because of the recent study done by researchers from the University of Birmingham.
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