Preservation of miocene glacier ice in East Antarctica
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Buried glacier ice that is 8.1 million years old has been discovered in Beacon valley, East Antarctica. There are two views about the Antarctic climate during Pliocene. One view holds that East Antarctica was largely free of glacier ice during Pliocene. The latest discovery is in support of the other view which maintains that a stable polar ice sheet developed by the middle Miocene which has persisted since then. Dating of the ice has been done by laser-fusion 40Ar/39Ar analysis of volcanic ash in the thin, overlying glacial till.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Evidence for recent climate change on Mars from the identification of youthful near-surface ground ice
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It has been possible to obtain observational evidence for a mid-latitude reservoir of near-surface water ice in the pore space of soils on Mars. This gives direct evidence for a ground ice cycle on Mars functioning on Milankovich timescales.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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Recent ice ages on Mars
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Recent studies conducted on Mars, show dusty, water-ice-rich mantling deposit that are layered, metres thick and latitude dependent in both hemispheres. Evidence of these deposits formed during a geologically recent ice age is provided.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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