Borneo Ice Cores In Underground Caves Give Climate Clues

[Wayne Harrison]

Growing inside the caves of the tropical Pacific island of Borneo are some of the keys to understanding how the Earth's climate suddenly changed - several times - over the last 25,000 years. By analyzing stalagmites, the pilar-like rock formations that stem from the ground in caves, they were able to produce a high-resolution and continuous record of the climate over this equatorial rainforest.

"These stalagmites are, in essence, tropical ice cores forming over thousands of years," said Partin. "Each layer of the rock contains important chemical traces that help us determine what was going on in the climate thousands of years ago, much like the ice cores drilled from Greenland or Antarctica."

<a href="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_account/borneo_ice_cores_in_underground_caves_give_clues_to_climate_change">via Scientific Blogging.com</a> (with Alan Cressler photos!)

[Cheryl Jones]

"Ice" cores???

Cheryl

[Martin Sluka]

"Ice" cores???

Cheryl

"ice cores" - the stalagmites have similar time records as ice cores in Antarctica or Greenland.

[Cheryl Jones]

Right-o. But the article doesn't discuss ice in Borneo

And the title of the article is Borneo Ice Cores In Underground Caves Give Clues To Climate Change ......not Borneo Stalactite Cores In Underground Caves Give Clues To Climate Change or Borneo "Ice Cores" In Underground Caves Give Clues To Climate Change.

Cheryl