Was the North Pole Once Ice Free?
✍ Scribed by Albert Gerdes; Jens Matthiessen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Weight
- 455 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0172-1526
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✦ Synopsis
B
remen, 9 November 2004. This is the day that scientists from the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) have been awaiting for so long. Thirty-two geologists, palaeontologists, chemists, microbiologists and other scientists from ten countries are meeting in the sediment-core repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) at the University of Bremen. The two-story brick warehouse at Europahafen was once a warehouse for tobacco, cotton and other goods. It has now been converted into a treasure vault for the geological sciences. "Our shelves contain a good 75 kilometres of sedimentary cores drilled from the beds of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Southern Ocean, all of them cut into one-and-a-half metre sections and packaged in white plastic containers," states Professor Gerold Wefer, director of the DFG Research Centre Ocean Margins.
Recently, 340 metres of especially valuable sediment core were acquired.