Increasingly warming seawater sloshed exposed rocks about 161 kilometers (100 miles) inland of the current ice sheet edge. (nsidc.org)
«Most ice cores are collected from the middle of the ice sheet where it rarely ever melts, or on the ice sheet edge where the meltwater flows into the ocean. (sciencedaily.com)
«Most ice cores are collected from the middle of the ice sheet where it rarely ever melts, or on the ice sheet edge where the meltwater flows into the ocean,» Karina Graeter, the lead author of the study as a graduate student in Dartmouth's Department of Earth Sciences, said in a statement. (rdmag.com)