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Glaciers and/or the Arctic/Antarctic ice caps.
When ice freezes it can freeze gas and other material inside of it and some ice may have been there from thousands of years ago and scientists may want to find out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere then etc.
The cores are drilled from the ice itself - ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland.
Geologists have learned to use growth rings in shells, as well as rhythmic layering in sediments and in glacial ice, to date events numerically back through recent Earth history.
to find out what the composition of the atmosphere was
Glaciers and/or the Arctic/Antarctic ice caps.
Ice cores contain tiny bubbles that contain a sample of the atmosphere from that time period. By studying the ice bubbles, it is possible to reconstruct the composition of the atmosphere at that time and thus the climate.
Scientist drill into ice and remove ice cores for study. Scientist analynze air trapped in the ice to learn how the atmosphere has changed. Scientists can develop an accurate history of overall weather patterns over time.
Ice cores are useful for scientists who want to learn about the climate in Antarctica thousands of years ago.
When ice freezes it can freeze gas and other material inside of it and some ice may have been there from thousands of years ago and scientists may want to find out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere then etc.
The cores are drilled from the ice itself - ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland.
Jack Hall was studying the greenhouse gases in ice cores from Antarctica because runaway greenhouse gases are causing global warming.
There are none because nobody lives there except for a few scientists studying the ice.
Generally, the data source you're thinking of is ice cores.
analysing cores of ice and rock formations
Ice cores taken by scientists to study the health of planet earth are returned under refrigeration to scientific laboratories on other continents.
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.