About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Ice, Ice skating, Frost, Clathrate hydrate, Diamond dust, Ice core, Pumpable ice technology, Ice core brittle zone, Pykrete, Flake ice, Amorphous ice, Sperry-Piltz Ice Accumulation Index, Glaze ice, Frazil ice, Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Frost weathering, Black ice, Resonance method of ice destruction, Ice Ih, Slurry ice, Ice cube, Ice circle, Cube ice maker, Flake ice machine, Hard rime, Ice VII, Ice-nine, Aufeis, Icemaker, Frost flower, Bjerrum defect, Iceman, Congelation ice, Icicle, Firn, Ice generator, Ice crystals, Ice XII, Ice pick, Sympagic ecology, Ice spike, Needle ice, Jumble ice, Ice XV, Ice IX, Ice Ic, Soft rime, Ice rules, Neve, Ice cutting, Clear ice, White frost, Tube ice, Ice III, Rotten ice, Candle ice, Verglas, Ice VIII, Hard frost, Accretion, Pagophagy, Pagophily, Ice divide. Excerpt: An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere. As the ice forms from the incremental build up of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper, and an ice core contains ice formed over a range of years. The properties of the ice and the recrystallized inclusions within the ice can then be used to reconstruct a climatic record over the age range of the core, normally through isotopic analysis. This enables the reconstruction of local temperature records and the history of atmospheric composition. Ice cores contain an abundance of climate information. Inclusions in the snow of each year remain in the ice, such as wind-blown dust, ash, bubbles of atmospheric gas and radioactive substances. The variety of climatic proxies is greater than in any other natural recorder of climate, such as tree rings or sediment layers. These include (proxies for) temperat...
