Open AccessAntarctic Ice Cores Offer a Whiff of Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere
Author(s) -
Katherine Kornei
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo136975
Subject(s) - atmosphere (unit) , earth (classical element) , astrobiology , geology , environmental science , earth science , ice core , meteorology , climatology , geography , astronomy , physics
Bubbles of greenhouse gases trapped in ice shed new light on an important climate transition that occurred about a million years ago.