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[[Image:Ngrip-epica-do18.png|thumb|right|Delta-O-18 record from the NGRIP core]] |
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The drilling site of the '''North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP)''' is near the center of [[Greenland]] (75.1 N, 42.32 W, 2917 m, ice thickness 3085). Drilling began in [[1999]] and was completed at [[bedrock]] in [[2003]] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3090279.stm]. The [[ice core|cores]] are cylinders of ice four inches in diameter that were brought to the surface in 3.5-meter lengths. The NGRIP site was chosen to extract a long and undisturbed record stretching into the last [[glacial]], and it succeeded. The site was chosen for a flat basal [[topography]] to avoid the flow distortions that render the bottom of the [[Greenland ice core project|GRIP]] and [[Greenland Ice Sheet Project|GISP]] cores unreliable. Unusually, there is melting at the bottom of the NGRIP core - believed to be due to a high [[geothermal (geology)|geothermal]] heat flux locally. This has the advantage that the bottom layers are less compressed by thinning than they would otherwise be: NGRIP annual layers at 105 kyr age are 1.1 cm thick, twice the GRIP thicknesses at equal age. |
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The NGRIP record helps to resolve a problem with the GRIP record - the unreliability of the [[Eemian interglacial]] portion of the record. NGRIP covers 5 kyr of the Eemian, and shows that temperatures then were roughly as stable as the pre-industrial [[Holocene]] temperatures were. This is confirmed by [[sediment]] cores, in particular MD95-2042 [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001199.html]. |
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In [[2003]], NGRIP recovered what seem to be plant remnants nearly two miles below the surface, and they may be several million years old. [http://www.glaciology.gfy.ku.dk/ngrip/index_eng.htm] |
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"Several of the pieces look very much like blades of grass or pine needles," said University of Colorado at Boulder geological sciences Professor James White, an NGRIP principal investigator. "If confirmed, this will be the first organic material ever recovered from a deep ice-core drilling project," he said. |
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==External links== |
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* http://www.glaciology.gfy.ku.dk/ngrip/index_eng.htm |
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[[Category:Geochronology]] |
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[[Category:Natural history of Greenland]] |
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[[es:Proyecto de muestras de hielo del norte de Groenlandia]] |
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Revision as of 13:07, 16 August 2008
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