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Letter Published: 23 January 1960 Isotopic Distribution in a Greenland Iceberg W. DANSGAARD1, G. NIEF1 & E. ROTH1  Nature volume 185, page 232 (1960)Cite this article

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THE heavy-oxygen content in the ice of the Greenland ice cap is extremely low1–3. This is part of a common feature showing decreasing H218O content in fresh water when going towards a colder

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About this articleCite this article DANSGAARD, W., NIEF, G. & ROTH, E. Isotopic Distribution in a Greenland Iceberg. Nature 185, 232 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185232a0

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