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Ice core showing annual rings

An ice core showing annual rings.

This is an ice core showing annual rings. The oldest ice ever retrieved was about 950 thousand years old.

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Rights: Dr Katja Riedel
Published: 24 September 2015Size: 577.13 KB
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