Posted on 05/27/2019 5:50:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The researchers found their watery prize while drilling sediment core samples out of the underwater limestone deposits that make up the Maldives archipelago in South Asia. After hauling each core onto their research vessel, the team sliced up the rock like a tube of cookie dough and put the pieces into a hydraulic press that squeezed any remnant moisture out of the pores.
When the researchers tested the composition of these fresh-pressed water samples aboard their ship, they were surprised to find that the water was extremely salty far saltier than the Indian Ocean is today. They did more tests back on land to look at the specific elements and isotopes (versions of elements) that made up the water, and all the results seemed out of place in the modern ocean.
In fact, everything about these water samples indicated that they came from a time when the ocean was significantly saltier, colder and more chlorinated exactly as it is thought to have been during the Last Glacial Maximum, when ice sheets sucked up ocean water and dropped sea levels to hundreds of feet below current levels.
"From all indications, it looks pretty clear we now have an actual piece of this 20,000-year-old ocean," lead study author Clara Blättler, an assistant professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, said in a statement.
If these results indeed hold water, the new samples provide the first direct look at how the ocean reacted to the geophysical swings of the last ice age. This understanding could lead to improved climate models to help understand our own changing world, Blättler said, as "any model you build of the climate has to be able to accurately predict the past."
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I would hope they try several different methods to extract the water to determine if it was picking up undissolved salt out of the sample compromising the results.
Something the Global Warming catastrophist could learn.
But if they did they would have to find a new way to make a living.
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bttt
Freshman Geology: Hutton’s Theory of Uniformitarianism. all Climate Hystericists should take Geology. This is data before Mann’s hockey stick, but doesn’t agree with the Green New Deal..Hmmm.
Not for leftards. Their models have to predict exactly what they want them to predict: enough disaster to cause enough fear and guilt, in order to achieve socialism and statism.
“I would hope they try several different methods to extract the water to determine if it was picking up undissolved salt out of the sample compromising the results.”
We must hope the researches considered your idea, and acted on it.
Unfortunately hope is all we have, as so often today scientists get slip shop with their research once a single new finding is made. Then it becomes time not for further checking, but for being the first to publish, so their published works can get them government approvals for more grants.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
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I seems to recall several years ago they found a massive under ground lake near the arctic circle that was even older. The Russians were going to go in probe it and they were trying to figure out how to do it because any opening would contaminate it. I never saw how any more information.
Wasn’t this a Northern Exposure episode?
Here’s a source for further research.
“Lake Vostok”
https://www.damninteresting.com/raiders-of-the-lost-lake/
Not for leftards. Their models have to predict exactly what they want them to predict: enough disaster to cause enough fear and guilt, in order to achieve socialism and statism.
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Science is settle because we say so = tax payer grant funded “studies” and “research”.
Keep trying........
Something the Global Warming catastrophist could learn. But if they did they would have to find a new way to make a living.
Ummm, they're have to find a new way to scam people.
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