Index Fossils- Shows what kind of climate was there thousands of years ago.
Index Fossils- Shows what kind of climate was there thousands of years ago.
Ice cores are useful for scientists who want to learn about the climate in Antarctica thousands of years ago.
Thousands of year ago Antarctica was much like it is now: very cold and covered in ice. You would have to go back 160 million years to find it was warm.
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The land in Antarctica has remained unchanged for many thousands of years.
Going far enough back Antarctica was tropical.
In 1915, there weren't necessarily good maps of Antarctica, and none of them showed climate, only landmass.
This climate change is different:Because of its speed. Previous climate changes took many thousands of years, this has taken 200 years.Because it is being caused by human activity, deforestation and burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
Over thousands of years
Ice cores drilled in Antarctica -- and in many other ice sheets throughout the world -- can be analyzed in the lab for the atmospheric contents present during the period when the ice froze. These data give scientists treasure troves of data that have to do with climate and climate change over tens of thousands of years of Earth's atmospheric history.
The dry climate
Ice cores are used to examine the different levels of atmospheric gas, levels of dust, and also levels of solar radiation affected by both gas and dust. this allows scientists to examine what the atmosphere was like hundreds of thousands of years ago. Each layer shows a different period of time in the cycle of climate change.