Glacier drilled for climate study
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SCIENTISTS have drilled into a glacier in west China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to collect 400 meters of ice samples for research into climate change.
Under the project led by Yao Tandong, an academic with the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it took the team 40 days to collect the ice samples from the top of the Dund Glacier.
The team of scientists took three ice samples with a total length of 396 meters, drilling at an altitude of 5,320 meters above sea level on top of the glacier, and another three samples — 45 meters long in total — at an altitude of 4,950 meters above sea level.
The samples have been sent to the institute’s lab in Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.
The team also set up a meteorological station at the top of the glacier.
Only the polar regions have more glaciers than the plateau. Scientists believe glaciers can offer insight into climate change.
Although scientists generally believe glaciers on the plateau are melting due to global warming, the glacier appears to have remained stable without any obvious retreating since the first scientific drill by a Sino-America team in 1987.
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