UK scientists to unearth Ice Age secrets from preserved tree rings
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 13:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University is involved in a research project to unearth 30,000 year old climate records, before they are lost forever. The rings of preserved kauri trees, hidden in New Zealand`s peat bogs, hold the secret to climate fluctuations spanning back to the end of the last Ice Age.