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Searching Through Time - Ice Cores
Ice Cores:

The orange marks in the timeline above represent volcanic activity. Howwere scientists able to determine when volcanoes erupted thousands of yearsago? The answer lies deep in the arctic ice. Click the next button below tolearn more about ice cores and what they can tell us about the past.

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