Tales from ice time: two holes through Greenland offer a glimpse of climates past and future

Authors :: Monastersky, Richard
Source :: Science News. September 14, 1991, Vol. 140 Issue 11, p168, 5 p.
Publication Year :: 1991
Abstract: The scene evokes images of surgeons performing a liver transplant in full football gear. Moving quickly but gingerly, a crew of heavily outfitted drillers coaxes a long icicle from its [...]

Subjects :: Greenland -- Natural history
Drilling and boring machinery -- Greenland -- Research
Climatic changes -- Research
Ice sheets -- Research
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