Scientists struggle to get ice samples from the depths of glaciers where fundamental pieces of information about the climate of Earth are stored. But in many places around the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet, you don’t need to drill a deep ice core to obtain ancient ice, you can simply walk across the ice sheet’s margin and look at the layered ice surface. There you can read the ice as though ...[Read More]
Did you know… that you can read the edge of Greenland’s ice as an open book?
Layering of ice along the northern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Daugaard-Jensen Land. Figure credit: John Sonntag.