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| Geology professor Lonnie Thompson, left, and research associate Mary Davis take an early look at a segment of the Kilimanjaro ice core. | Researcher Mary Davis examines a thick dust layer inside the ice core, signifying a major drought event that struck the region in the past. | The outer margin of the Furtwangler ice field on Kilimanjaro ice sheet show that a massive retreat, or melting, has occurred in recent years. |
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| Members of the Ohio State expedition can barely be seen at the base of the ice wall that makes up the outer margin of Kilimanjaro's dwindling Northern ice field. | One of the last remnants of Kilimanjaro's Eastern ice field is a six-meter spire that was much larger when seen on earlier expeditions. It should vanish in a few years due to global warming. | The lower portion of the outer margin of Kilimanjaro's northern ice field shows clearly the stratigraphic record of ancient climate trapped in the ice. |
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| Three views of a remnant 12 meter high spire that is all that's left of one of the smaller ice fields on Africa's highest ice-capped peak, Kilimanjaro. On the right, expedition leader Lonnie Thompson surveys the rapidly vanishing clues to past climate conditions at this tropical locale. |