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Buried landforms reveal ancient glacial past of North Sea
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international research team including glaciologists from the University of Newcastle in the UK has discovered an extremely well-preserved glacial landform buried approximately one kilometer underground in the North Sea. Researchers used sound wave data, known as seismic data, to reveal Ice Age landforms buried under almost 1km of mud in the North Sea. The results,…
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Study reveals that oceans stored heat efficiently during the last glacial period
Antarctic sea ice is melting. Photo by Jiuxin Shi The Earth’s oceans, one of the largest heat storage sources in the climate system, absorb more than 90% of the excess energy from ongoing anthropogenic warming. Over the past century, the greatest ocean warming has occurred in the upper 500 meters, with relatively weaker warming in the deeper oceans, resulting in…
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