A Record of Fossil-Fuel Use (IMAGE)

Brown University

A Record of Fossil-Fuel Use

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A section of the 100m ice core taken in Greenland in summer 2006. Scientists studied nitrates -- the deposited form of nitrogen isotopes -- in the core to determine that fossil fuel burning has altered the global nitrogen cycle.

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Meredith Hastings, Brown University

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