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The Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) was a decade-long project to drill Ice Core s in Greenland that involved Scientist s and funding agencies from Denmark , Switzerland and the United States . Besides the U.S. National Science Foundation , funding was provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. The ice cores provide a Proxy archive of temperature and atmospheric constituents that help to understand past climate variations. The preliminary GISP , a higher site on the Ice Divide with smooth bedrock would have been better; logistically, such a site would have been too remote. GISP2 There was a follow-up U.S. GISP2 project, which drilled at a glaciologically better location on the summit. This hit bedrock (and drilled another 1.55 m into bedrock) on July 1 1993 after five years of drilling, while Europe an scientists produced a parallel core in the GRIP project. GISP2 produced an ice core 3053.44 meters in depth, the deepest ice core recovered in the world at the time {Link without Title} . The bulk of the GISP2 ice core is archived at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado , United States. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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