g. in the opal skeleton of diatoms). The special thing about this is that the geochemical fingerprint of both substances differs depending on the environmental conditions that prevailed when the diatoms [...] example, the air temperature that prevailed at the time of formation," says AWI climate researcher Dr Hanno Meyer. He heads the ISOLAB Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most [...] Temperature data of the last 200,000 years The EPICA DML ice core had a length of 2.892 metres. In order to find out what temperature data is stored in the various ice layers of the core, the scientists took

sampling of the Kerguelen Plateau in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. The Kerguelen Plateau rises up 2000 m above the surrounding seafloor and hence forms an obstacle for the flow of the Antarctic [...] region in the southern Indian Ocean the complex topography of the Kerguelen Plateau, one of the world’s largest Large Igneous Provinces, has a strong influence on pathways of water masses within the Antarctic [...] information on the Cretaceous and Tertiary development of the AABW and its influence on the path of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This in turn will allow conclusions on the development of the East Antarctic