NEEM hits bedrock

The North Greenland Eeemian Drilling Project has gone down as far as it can go, hitting bedrock through 1.5 miles of ice on July 27. We should learn more about Pleistocene climate from this effort.

This is the bottom 2 meters of the core:










Article from EurekAlert!

Ice core drilling effort involving CU-Boulder to help assess abrupt climate change risks

For those of you who haven't heard, the Eemian was the last warm period preceding the final glacial period before the Holocene. It was warmer at its peak than current -- but we're trying to change that, collectively.