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  • 12,000-year-old Ice Age glacier core discovered in Alps packs ancient climate clues

    07/18/2025 9:32:56 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 25 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | July 16, 2025 | Mrigakshi Dixit
    Researchers have identified the oldest known glacier ice in the European Alps, originating from the last Ice Age.US-based Desert Research Institute (DRI) conducted a detailed analysis of a 131 feet (40-meter) ice core extracted from Mont Blanc's Dôme du Goûter glacier in the Alps.This ice core provides the oldest known record of aerosols and climate in the European Alps, stretching back at least 12,000 years to the last Ice Age...The ice core showed a 3-degree Celsius temperature disparity between the last Ice Age and the current Holocene Epoch.The phosphorus record in the ice core also unveiled a 12,000-year history of...