Well-preserved fossil plants found under Greenland ice sheet

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Top-secret Cold War military project found perfectly 

preserved fossil plants under Greenland ice

By Mindy Weisberger, Live Science, March 2021

 

Andrew J. Christ, Paul R. Bierman, Joerg M. Schaefer, Dorthe

Dahl-Jensen, Jørgen P. Steffensen, Lee B. Corbett, Dorothy M. 

Peteet, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Eric J. Steig, Tammy M. Rittenour, 

Jean-Louis Tison, Pierre-Henri Blard, Nicolas Perdrial, David P. 

Dethier, Andrea Lini, Alan J. Hidy, Marc W. Caffee, John Southon,

2021. A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation

and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice 

at Camp Century. Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences Mar 2021, 118 (13) e2021442118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021442118

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.