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Ice core - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Dating the air with respect to the ice it is trapped in is problematic. |
 | | These layers may be visible, related to the nature of the ice; or they may be chemical, related to differential transport in different seasons; or they may be isotopic, reflecting the annual temperature signal (for example, snow from colder periods has more of the heavier isotopes of H and O). |
 | | Five different dating methods have been used for Vostok cores, with differences such as 300 years at 100m depth, 600yr at 200m, 7000yr at 400m, 5000yr at 800m, 6000yr at 1600m, and 5000yr at 1934m. |
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