Ice Cores from Continental Glaciers Provide Geologists Opportunities to Study

question 29

Multiple Choice

Ice cores from continental glaciers provide geologists opportunities to study past atmospheric conditions such as air temperature and greenhouse gas content.The reliable record available from coring ice in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets gives information back to approximately ____________.

• A) 65 million years ago
• B) 5 million years ago
• C) 800,000 years ago
• D) 150,000 years ago

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