Central Greenland Recently Ice-Free, But Why?

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Microfossil willow wood, fungi, insect body parts, and a poppy seed have been recovered from sediments at the bottom of central Greenland’s two-mile-long GISP2 ice core.1,2 This find is similar to an earlier discovery of such fossils found in basal sediments from the Camp Century ice core near Greenland’s northwest coast.3 These microfossils suggest that Greenland once had a tundra-like environment, with gr… More…

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