ice cores
ice cores is the plural of ice core.
Meaning of ice core
Noun
ice core (plural ice cores)
- A core sample removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere, the properties of which can be used to reconstruct a climatic record of a given area.
- A team including climate scientists and microbiologists from Ohio State University took two ice cores from the summit of the Guliya ice cap, at 22,000 feet above sea level, in western China in 2015.2021 July 23, Jack Guy, “Ancient viruses dating back 15,000 years found in Tibetan glacier”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2021
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- Ice cores is the plural of ice core.
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