NBI NEWS: GOLDEN SPIKE IN ICE CORE

The Ice and Climate research team at Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has led the NordGRIP project, which drilled a column of ice core all the way from the top of the inland ice through more than 3 kilometers of ice – down to the bottom.

The ice contains information about past climates, something that has gained an entirely new significance – in the determination of the geological ages of the Earth.

For the ice can answer a geological question that nobody else has been able to answer before – that is to establish the precise time that the last glacial period ended and the warmer present-day climate began.

Read the article: ‘The Modern Age’ is defined by Danish ice core research
What caused the end of the ice age?
Traces of meteoritic impact in ice cores?
Determination of end of the Ice Age?

Produced by: Niels Bohr Institute, 2008
Producer: Gertie Skaarup
Photographer and editor: Rune Eggers Sørensen