Deglaciation of northwestern Greenland during Marine Isotope Stage 11
Christ, Andrew J.; Rittenour, Tammy M.; Bierman, Paul R.; et al.. Science, 2023
381(6655):330–335, (GEUS record).
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In 1967, the U.S. Army abandoned a nuclear-powered city under Greenland's ice and decided that was fine. The plan was simple: perpetual snowfall would bury it deeper every year, and the whole thing — the tunnels, the reactor waste, the diesel, the sewage, the classified documents — would be entombed forever.
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In April 2024 NASA's UAVSAR on a Gulfstream III imaged Camp Century while mapping the ice bed; Alex Gardner: 'We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century'; Chad Greene: individual structures 'visible in a way that they've never been seen before'.
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The camp's structures now lie at least 30 m (100 ft) below the surface.
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Luminescence dating shows sediment at the base of the Camp Century core was deposited in an ice-free environment 416,000 ± 38,000 years ago (Science, July 2023).
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