University of Vermont Scientists Stunned to Discover Plants Beneath Mile-Deep Greenland Ice
March 16, 2021
March 16, 2021
BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 16 (TNSRes) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news on March 15, 2021:
In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland--and pulled up a fifteen-foot-long tube of dirt from the bottom. Then this frozen sediment was lost in a freezer for decades. It was accidentally rediscovered in 2017.
In 2019, University of Vermont scientist Andrew Christ looked at it through his microscope--and c . . .
In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland--and pulled up a fifteen-foot-long tube of dirt from the bottom. Then this frozen sediment was lost in a freezer for decades. It was accidentally rediscovered in 2017.
In 2019, University of Vermont scientist Andrew Christ looked at it through his microscope--and c . . .