Geology: the ANDRILL project on the cover

The international magazine Geology dedicates the cover of the October issue to the project ANDRILL - Antarctic geological drilling.

The researchers involved in the project, coordinated by F. Florindo (INGV) and D. Harwood (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln) have found evidence of a sudden increase in temperature in Antarctica which occurred about 15,7 million years ago.

Read the press release

Warny S., Askin RA, Hannah MJ, Ian Raine J., Harwood DM, Florindo, F. and the SMS Science Team. Palynomorphs from a sediment core reveal a sudden remarkably warm Antarctica during the middle Miocene. Geology October 2009, v. 37, p. 955-958, doi:10.1130/G30139A.1

Read the article in Geology

The ANDRILL project? an international collaboration involving 150 researchers from Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States. More information on the site www.andrill.org.