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Key date in icing over of Antarctica is established

Guardian Unlimited: The moment the Pacific and Atlantic oceans linked up, ultimately leading to the freezing of Antarctica, has been traced to 41m years ago, according to a study of the seabed off the tip of South America.

Posted by Physics Today on April 21, 2006 10:15 AM |

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