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Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, Europe

Carothèque de glace
Cores collections

Museum or Collection Type:
Other
Institutional Type:
Collection: Research

Subject:
Earth Sciences, Geophysics, Meteorology

Address:
Université Joseph Fourier - BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9

Contact:
Jean-Luc Jaffrezo
jaffrezo@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr

Links:
Carothèque de glace
Université Joseph Fourier

Description:
Establishment in the 1970s, the "core library" has more than 15,000 samples of ice cores from various (Alps, Andes, Arctic, Antarctic, ...), ranging in age from very recent to more than 800,000 years.