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Ice cores give
wonderful climate records:
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• Age from counting annual layers (checked
many ways!);
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• Snow accumulation from layer thicknesses;
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• Temperature at site in several ways;
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• Wind-blown dust, sea-salt, etc. from
elsewhere;
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• Trapped bubbles of old air with swamp-gas
methane, etc.;
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• All on common time scale;
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