500,000-year temperature record challenges ice age theory
Fact Sheet
007-94
By: K. Mitchell Snow
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Abstract
Just outside the searing heat of Death Valley lies Devils Hole (fig. 1), a fault-created cave that harbors two remnants of the Earth's great ice ages. The endangered desert pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) has long made its home in the cave. A 500,000-year record of the planet's climate that challenges a widely accepted theory explaining the ice ages also has been preserved in Devils Hole.
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Snow, K.M., 1994, 500,000-year temperature record challenges ice age theory: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 007-94, 2 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs00794.
ISSN: 2327-6932 (online)
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | 500,000-year temperature record challenges ice age theory |
| Series title | Fact Sheet |
| Series number | 007-94 |
| DOI | 10.3133/fs00794 |
| Year Published | 1994 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Description | 2 p. |
| Country | United States |
| Other Geospatial | Death Valley;Devils Hole |