From lush to slush in 40 million years

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3073, 2016, pág. 13
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Antarctica was once covered with tropical forests. Now researchers have fully charted the slow transition from tropical paradise to icy wasteland, thanks to a single marine sediment core. It shows for the first time that temperate forests were a key transitional stage before falling temperatures turned the continent into a white wasteland. The core was taken from the sea floor off Wilkes Land in East Antarctica as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme