Ice Core with Melt Layers (IMAGE)

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Ice Core with Melt Layers

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One of the ice cores taken from Mt. Hunter in June 2013. The bands of dark ice represent times when glacier snow melted and refroze in past summers.

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Credit: Dominic Winski.

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