Arctic was the Mediterranean of its day (55 million years ago)

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Arctic was the Mediterranean of its day (55 million years ago)

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The ice-strewn strewn waters of the Arctic Ocean were once as warm as the Mediterranean Sea, an international scientific study has found.

The Arctic Coring Expedition (Acex) made the surprising discovery after extracting sediment from 400m below the seabed. Samples of fossilised algae showed that, 55 million years ago, the Arctic was a sub-tropical, shallow sea with an average temperature of about 20C.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/sci ... ory=559325
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