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In September, 1958 science was in the midst of the groundbreaking 18-month 'International Geophysical Year'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophy
by 8bitsrule 7y ago
In September, 1958 science was in the midst of the groundbreaking 18-month 'International Geophysical Year'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year
It's what stimulated ice-core sampling. Before it, 60 years ago, science knew much, much less about climate, let alone climate history. (Plate tectonics was just coming into vogue!) IGY stimulated evidenciary techniques that forced a drastic revision of what we 'knew' before it.