Ocean-bottom sediments tell a story about ancient Greenland summers
E-Mail IMAGE: Ocean-bottom sediments, shown after materials such as leaf wax chemicals have been extracted. These sediments -- collected in 1985 by the Ocean Drilling Program -- were processed recently at UB... view more Credit: Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Over hundreds of thousands of years, sediments from southern Greenland have been making their way into the ocean, where they're carried by underwater currents to a location in the Labrador Sea called the Eirik Drift. Here, they settle on the ocean floor, where they form a record of history, accumulati...
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