<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d0362596-d173-4c40-b7a5-c66c53df7f44/1B0E3F35-F4E7-467D-A196-B86F05264707/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/16/ice-samples-anwr-glacier-give-scientists-look-arct/" href="http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/16/ice-samples-anwr-glacier-give-scientists-look-arct/" style="font-size: 11px;">newsminer.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/16/ice-samples-anwr-glacier-give-scientists-look-arct/"><P>The University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering professor came to check on ice core samples from McCall Glacier, located in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/16/ice-samples-anwr-glacier-give-scientists-look-arct/">More than 150 ice cores were collected during a two-week period. An ice core 150 meters long was extracted during the drilling work and is the longest extracted ice core from an Arctic glacier in the U.S. The core, which is longer than 1 1/2 football fields, could hold 200 years of the glacier’s history, Nolan said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/16/ice-samples-anwr-glacier-give-scientists-look-arct/"><P>The samples will be studied in the fall to gain more information about climate change and how it affects Arctic regions.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/16/ice-samples-anwr-glacier-give-scientists-look-arct/"><P>Nolan said the cores are like layered cakes. Each section can be studied for information about a certain time frame.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/16/ice-samples-anwr-glacier-give-scientists-look-arct/"><P>At the ice museum, Nolan held up a core and said it represented a four- or five- year period 300 years ago.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1B0E3F35-F4E7-467D-A196-B86F05264707/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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