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Magnesium In Plankton Shells Serves As Record Of Ancient Climate Change
2013-10-26 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Climate change dating as far back as hundreds of million years ago was recorded in the shells of ancient oceanic plankton, according to new research published in the journal Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters. Typically, scientists analyze polar ice in search of information about the planets temperature and atmosphere, but the oldest Antarctic ice core records only date back to approximately 800,000 years ago. In the new study, investigators from the University of Cambridge Department of...
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