Most of Greenland Millions of Years Ago Was Overflowing With Plants

KOMPAS.com- Life Greenland in the past it was not like what we see today. Now maybe Greenland is a snow-covered area icing, but millions of years ago, it turned out that most of the territory was filled plant.

Quoting from New Atlas, Friday (19/3/2021) the evidence was found by scientists from the University of Vermont.

Scientists create fossil discoveries plants under the Greenland ice sheet as deep as 1.4 km.

While drilling, researchers found plant matter such as twigs, moss, and ice cores.

This suggests that the island was ice-free millions of years ago or so.

Also read: New Record, Greenland Loses 586 Billion Tons of Ice Sheet This Year

But with the findings plant fossils This research also shows us that Greenland is more vulnerable to climate change than we expected.

“Icing usually destroys everything. But what we found was a fragile plant structure, perfectly preserved. It’s a time capsule of what used to live in Greenland that we can’t find anywhere else, “said Andrew Christ, author of the study from the University of Vermont, English.

In their study, researchers studied the isotope ratios of aluminum and beryllium, which can reveal how long the sample was buried.

Luminescence studies show when sediment was last exposed to light, radiocarbon dating of wood shows its age.

Also read: Greenland’s Ice Sheet is Melting, Scientists Say It Will Not Recover

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