Meaning

1 senses
  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.

    ледяно́й кернledjanój kern

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The glaciologists collected ice cores in the glacier.

  2. The scientists collected ice cores.

  3. The glaciologists collected ice cores.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
core sample removed from an ice sheet:

Forms

plural: ice cores
Singularice core
Pluralice cores

regular

See also

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