On determining temperature and COz concentration that occurred thousands of years ago:(12 pts) Someone shows you the plot below associating isotopes ratios to temperature records and you immediately say these samples are from polar ice cores. Why? (10 pts) How would you expect the plot might change if instead the isotopes were obtained from ocean sediments? Draw that version of the plot and explain.(8 pts) Temperature records based on sediments often go back millions of years to the age of dinosaurs, while the ones based on ice-cores go back less than 1 million years.What's the main cause of this?

Q. 2If isotopes were obtained from ocean sediments instead of polar ice cores, the plot associating…

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On determining temperature and COz concentration that occurred thousands of years ago:

(12 pts) Someone shows you the plot below associating isotopes ratios to temperature records and you immediately say these samples are from polar ice cores. Why?

(10 pts) How would you expect the plot might change if instead the isotopes were obtained from ocean sediments? Draw that version of the plot and explain.
(8 pts) Temperature records based on sediments often go back millions of years to the age of dinosaurs, while the ones based on ice-cores go back less than 1 million years.

What's the main cause of this?

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