LISS.398A TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT and HUMAN ADAPTATION:
PART I EARLY PEOPLES in
the NEW WORLD
CLIMATE CHANGE: POLAR ICE CORE EVIDENCE
Ice in polar regions never melts. Thus,
O18/O16 ratios
in
sections of "ice cores" from polar regions provide a record
of glacial accumulation and depletion.
Ice core data is available for the last 900,000 years.
Colorado School of Mines
Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies
Dr. Joseph D. Sneed
jsneed@mines.edu
