Ice Core Data: Accumulation, Dust Particles, Isotopes, Chemistry, and Gas Concentration Data from Polar and Alpine Regions Worldwide

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Citation:

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Originator: National Geophysical Data Center

Publication_Date: 1990

Title: Ice Core Data: Accumulation, Dust Particles, Isotopes, Chemistry, and Gas Concentration Data from Polar and Alpine Regions Worldwide

Edition: First

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Publication_Place: Boulder, CO

Publisher: National Geophysical Data Center

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Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore.html

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Abstract:

Ice Core data from Polar and Mountain regions, including annual ice accumulation, dust particles, stable isotopes, trapped gases, and ice chemistry. Paleoclimatic Research

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Address: World Data Center for Paleoclimatology

Address: NOAA/NCDC Code E/GCx3

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City: Boulder

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Postal_Code: 80303

Country: USA

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