Seeking Earth's Past by Drilling in Remote Arctic
Friday, March 20, 2009 - 12:37
in Earth & Climate
In mid-March, drilling by paleoclimatologists to retrieve sediment and meteorite-impact rocks from remotest Siberia reached about 213 feet (65 m), about 1 million years into the past. They hope to retrieve the longest continuous climate data ever collected for the Arctic, over 3.6 million years.