Climate Detectives: Unit Overview part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
Educator Pages » Why study Earth's climate history? Earth's climate has changed, sometimes dramatically, in the past. If you had lived on the island of Manhattan about 20,000 years ago, you would have ...

Coring Is Not Boring! part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
Introduction Sediments can reveal the secrets of Earth's past climate history—what it was like on land and in the sea thousands and even millions of years ago. Over geologic time, the sinking and settling ...

Climate Detective Glossary part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
abrasion the mechanical scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport by wind, glacier, waves, gravity, running water or erosion. biochemical sediments form from ...

Climate Detective Glossary part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
biochemical sediments form from the gradual accumulation of biologic material such as shells or dead plant material. calving the process by which an iceberg breaks off from an ice shelf or glacier. chemical ...