Contains background papers and summary group reports from a workshop concerned with the environmental records contained in the layered sequences of ice sheets and glaciers. Examines: a) how glaciers record and preserve environmental processes; b)establishing ice core chronology; c)anthropogenic impacts recorded in glaciers; d)ice-core record of long-term global changes in the environment.

Data from Camp Century, Greenland, ice core provided information on history of atmospheric carbon dioxide content, but complex processes during snow formation and metamorphosis must be taken into account.

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