Researchers from the University of Manitoba have extracted what is believed to be the deepest ice core ever in Canadian history.
The 613-metre ice core from the Müller Ice Cap on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, was extracted in 2–3 metre sections over a period of several weeks.
The ice core is expected to offer insights in the climatic past of the Arctic, according to project lead Dorthe Dahl-Jensen.
“When you drill an ice core, you drill from annual layer to annual layer, deeper and deeper, back in time,” she told The Epoch Times in a phone interview.
“When you reach the bedrock, then you get the oldest ice,” she said….