ice core

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Noun

ice core (plural ice cores)

1. A core sample removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere, the properties of which can be used to reconstruct a climatic record of a given area.
   • 2021 July 23, Jack Guy, “Ancient viruses dating back 15,000 years found in Tibetan glacier”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on July 24, 2021‎^[2]:

     A team including climate scientists and microbiologists from Ohio State University took two ice cores from the summit of the Guliya ice cap, at 22,000 feet above sea level, in western China in 2015.

Translations

core sample removed from an ice sheet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰芯 (bīngxīn), 冰核 (zh) (bīnghé)

• Finnish: jääkairausnäyte
• French: carotte de glace (fr) f
• Icelandic: ískjarni m
• Polish: rdzeń lodowy m
• Russian: ледяно́й керн m (ledjanój kern)
• Spanish: testigo de hielo m