Home Natural World Seasonal layers in a snow pit at an Antarctic ice-coring field camp, backlit by the sun. The dim layers at the top is last winter's snow, and the bright middle layer is last summer. Paleoclimatologist
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Seasonal layers in a snow pit at an Antarctic ice-coring field camp, backlit by the sun. The dim layers at the top is last winter's snow, and the bright middle layer is last summer. Paleoclimatologist

Seasonal layers in a snow pit at an Antarctic ice-coring field camp, backlit by the sun. The dim layers at the top is last winter's snow, and the bright middle layer is last summer. Paleoclimatologists count these layers back like tree rings

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Date Taken: 01.2010
Date Uploaded: 03.2010
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Camera: NIKON D3000
Copyright: © Chaz Firestone