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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299412703321

Autore

Faria Sérgio Henrique

Titolo

The EPICA-DML Deep Ice Core : A Visual Record / / by Sérgio Henrique Faria, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Anja Lambrecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-662-55308-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 305 p. 39 illus., 31 illus. in color.)

Collana

Frontiers in Earth Sciences, , 1863-4621

Disciplina

550

Soggetti

Atmospheric sciences

Climatology

Structural geology

Atmospheric Sciences

Structural Geology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. EDML Facts and Physics -- 1 Getting Started -- 2 Antarctica and EPICA -- 3 The EDML Drilling Site -- 4 Multiscale Structure of the EDML Core -- 5 EDML Line-Scan Images. Part II. EDML Visual Stratigraphy Record.

Sommario/riassunto

The line-scan images collected in this book represent the most accurate optical record of Antarctic ice cores ever presented, providing an invaluable resource for glaciologists and climate modellers, as well as a fascinating compilation of ice core images for Antarctica enthusiasts. Global warming and the Earth’s past climate are the two main reasons for extracting deep ice cores from Antarctica. Indeed, dust particles, aerosols and other climatic traces deposited on the snow surface, as well as the air trapped in bubbles by compacted snow, produce chronologically ordered strata, making the ice from Antarctica the most accurate and valuable archive of the Earth’s climate over the last million years. In addition, the layered structure produced by these strata, when revealed by appropriate methods, provides indispensable information concerning the flow and mechanical stability of the Antarctic ice sheet, allowing us to assess the current and future impact



of global warming on the melting of polar ice caps with much greater precision.