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En Antarctique, un forage atteint de la glace datant de plus d’un million d’années

Les recherches du projet européen Beyond Epica permettent aux scientifiques de constituer l’histoire du climat et de l’atmosphère de la terre.



The main conceptual idea of the text is the successful achievement of drilling through the entire Antarctic ice sheet to extract a 2,800-meter long ice core, dating back over 1 million years. This breakthrough, led by the European "Beyond Epica" project, will allow scientists to significantly extend our understanding of Earth's climate and atmospheric history, surpassing previous records by allowing analysis up to 1.2 million years ago. The project aims to shed light on the "mid-Pleistocene transition" (MPT), a period of significant change in glacial-interglacial cycles around 900,000 to 1.2 million years ago.

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