Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT ·
Crête ice core (1974)
On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Crête — Dansgaard’s core”
1974 — A 404-metre core drilled at Crête, on the crest of the ice sheet, gave Willi Dansgaard’s team a record of about 1,400 years. In 1975 they read it beside Norse history and concluded that the climate had a strong impact on the Greenland colony.
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- Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age (chapter 1 of Norse and Aztecs)
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- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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