[Rockhounds] 2.7-Million-Year-Old Ice Found in Allan Hills, East Antarctica

[Albert McCann]

Oohh I missed this.


> Yan Y, Ng J, Higgins J, Kurbatov A, Clifford H, Spaulding N, Severinghaus
> J, Brook E, Mayewski P & Bender M., Paris 2017, August 13-18 2.7-Million-
> Year-Old Ice from Allan Hills Blue Ice Areas, East Antarctica Reveals
> Climate Snapshots Since Early Pleistocene Goldschmidt 2017, Conference,
> https://goldschmidt.info/2017/abstracts/abstractView?id=2017004920
> 
> Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice
> ages By Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, Aug. 15, 2017
> http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/record-shattering-27-million-year-
> old-ice-core-reveals-start-ice-ages


Who's going to be the first to try this well aged ice in their Scotch? :-)

Al
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