Remote Siberian lake holds clues to Arctic — and Antarctic — climate change

Posted June 21st, 2012 by PCC STEM & filed under Geology.

Intense warm climate intervals -- warmer than scientists thought possible -- have occurred in the Arctic over the past 2.8 million years. That result comes from the first analyses of the longest sediment cores ever retrieved on land. They were obtained from beneath remote, ice-covered Lake El'gygytgyn in the northeastern Russian Arctic.

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