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The Greenland core's Eemian layers contradicted the Holocene window
A Greenland summit drill pulls a 3,029 m ice timeline that suggests our 11,000‑year Holocene calm may be an accident - so what happened in the Eemian?
The Greenland core's Eemian layers contradicted the Holocene window
In this episode, we follow the Greenland Summit drilling project from its 1989 start through three seasons to bedrock in 1992 and the scientific questions the ice record raised. The episode covers how the core recorded the Holocene’s striking uniformity, the rapid D-O shifts of the last ice age, and the confusing signals in the Eemian that forced researchers to rethink earlier…
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