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Ancient Landscape Is Found Under 2 Miles Of Ice In Greenland
2014-04-19 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In a surprising discovery, scientists have found evidence of a tundra landscape in Greenland that's millions of years old. The revelation goes against widely held ideas about how some glaciers work, and it suggests that at least parts of Greenland's ice sheet had survived periods of global warming intact. "Glaciers are commonly thought to work like a belt sander," a news release from the University of Vermont says. "As they move over the land they scrape off everything - vegetation, soil, and...
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