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Geologists Find Million-Year-Old Plant Fossils Deep Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet | Geology, Paleontology – Sci-News.com
The deep ice at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland entirely melted at least once within the last million years and was covered with vegetation, including moss…
The deep ice at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland entirely melted at least once within the last million years and was covered with vegetation, including moss and perhaps trees, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Understanding the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet is critical for predicting its response to future climate warming and contribution to sea-level rise. Image credit: Rolf Johansson.
Ice sheets typically pulverize and destroy everything…
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