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core project coordinated by UNH obtains unrivaled climate record
Tuesday, February 12, 2013  Click image to enlarge  Photo by Jay
Johnson, IDDO, University of Wisconsin-Madison The first
replicate core ever taken from the high side of an ice core
borehole. The curvature on the top is the original borehole. The
replicate core has a diameter of 4.25 inches.  DURHAM — A team
of U.S. ice coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica,
funded by the National Science Foundation, have recovered an
unprecedented record of climate and greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere that extends back 68,000 years. The core is the
longest ever drilled by an American team at 11,160 feet (3,405
meters).  The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core
project, with science coordination by the University of New
Hampshire, provides a record of uni