• 1700-foot record-breaking Antarctica drill retrieves longest-ever sediment core The drill was part of this international SWAIS2C project (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C). • An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment core from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. • Drilled at Crary Ice Rise, this record-breaking core provides a geological time machine of roughly 23 million years. • The sediment core, composed of layers of mud and rock, could offer insights into how Antarctica reacts to rising global temperatures. • “This record will give us critical insights about how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Ross Ice Shelf are likely to respond to temperatures above 2°C. • Initial indications are that the layers of sediment in the core span the past 23 million years, including time periods when Earth’s global average temperatures were significantly higher than 2°C above pre-industrial,” said Huw Horgan, co-chief scientist of the SWAIS2C project.
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- 1700-foot record-breaking Antarctica drill retrieves longest-ever sediment core The drill was part of this international SWAIS2C project (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C). An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment core from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Drilled at Crary Ice Rise, this record-breaking core provides a geological time machine of roughly 23 million years. The sediment core, composed of layers of mud and rock, could offer insights into how Antarctica reacts to rising global temperatures. “Th
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