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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.

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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.

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