Source: The Post
The magic moment looked strangely domestic for a gathering of scientists and drillers working in freezing temperatures on the massive Ross Ice Shelf.
They leaned in close around a metal tube cradling a muddy cylinder as if it might wriggle like a newborn baby. A slice of history had just emerged from the sea floor. And a peek into a climate warming future, as well.
“There’s … core,” Wellington-based Earth Sciences NZ sedimentologist Georgia Grant cried in an excited voice akin to “it’s a girl”.
