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Holocene climate and ice-shelf history on James Ross Island

Posted on 23/08/2012 by Bethan Davies tagged APIS, Climate change, Ice shelves, James Ross Island, JRI

A paper in this weeks’ Nature by Mulvaney et al. 2012 suggested that the climate around the Antarctic Peninsula has varied extensively over the Holocene. This data is derived from a 363.9 m ice core from the Mount Haddington Ice Cap on James Ross Island.