The location of Muztag ata glacier and the ice core sampling strategy. (IMAGE)

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The location of Muztag ata glacier and the ice core sampling strategy.

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The location of Muztag ata glacier on the Tibetan Plateau and the influence of Westerly jet and Indian monsoon are shown in panel a. The ice core sampling strategy is illustrated in panel (b). Briefly, the 74 m ice core was cut into 10 to 15 cm sections and dated, then sections with environmental proxies available are used for DNA extraction and bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing.

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