World’s Oldest Cave Glacier Reveals 10,000 Years of Climate Data

By Cassie Kelly | EcoWatch 

Deep inside the Apuseni Mountains you’ll find the Scărișoara Ice Cave in Transylvania, the oldest cave glacier in the world. You’ll also find some pretty incredible climate data from the last 10,000 years.

An international team of scientists from several institutions, including the University of South Florida, University of Belfast and Stockholm University, reconstructed winter climate conditions using ice cores from the cave that were indicative of the Holocene epoch. The Holocene was a period of more than 11,000 years from the present, but many climate scientists say we’ve moved into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, a geological period in which human activity profoundly shapes the environment.

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