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Antarctica
æntˈɑrktɪkə/ or /æntˈɑrtɪkə/) is Earth's southernmost continent, ... Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and ... |
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theatlantic: What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?
An artist-geologist renders the history of the Earth with maps. ... crust might yet be headed (including a possible supercontinent in the Antarctic). ... . But the styles of mountains have not dramatically changed over the last probably two billion ... What has changed is the amount of vegetation on the landscape. |
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Oxygen oasis in Antarctic lake reflects Earth in the distant past
At the bottom of a frigid Antarctic lake, a thin layer of green slime is generating a little oasis of oxygen, a team including UC Davis researchers has found. ... modern replica discovered of conditions on Earth two and a half billion years ago ... Study implicates global warming as a factor in increasing economic ... . |
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IceBridge has more than 18 scheduled flights over Antarctica, which will ... couple of years following the 2002 collapse, leading researchers to assume they remained stable. ... NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected ... Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland's ice sheet is ... |
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Past Climate Cycles: Ice Age Speculations
Geologists turned up evidence that the past few million years, during which the ice ... Given that something had put the Earth into a state conducive to glaciation, what ... The problem that researchers set themselves was to find a pattern in the ... gently in cycles lasting tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years. |
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New Study Conclusively Confirms Unprecedented Ice Melt In ...
New digital elevation models for Greenland and Antarctica (Credit: Helm et al., The Cryosphere, 2014). Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany have ... differs across each of the ice sheets, using just over a year's worth of ... the study also highlights how the elevation has changed over the ... . |
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"Lost" Satellite Photos Reveal Surprising Views of Earth in the 1960s
Images include the Aral Sea before it dried up, the most Antarctic ice on record, ... 50 years and that push back the first satellite images of our planet a full 17 years. ... show how humankind has changed the planet, from deforestation to ... the painstaking process of digitizing hundreds of thousands of photos ... . |
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Teaching Notes - SERC
Learning Goals ... from Antarctica to tell a story about climate change throughout Earth's history. ... The Earth's climate has changed dramatically over time. ... in geologic time scales—tens of thousands to millions of years. ... How do ocean sediment cores give researchers clues about Earth's climate hist... |