新gre阅读真题解读剖析：【地球冷暖周期通过石头含铁量推定】.docxVIP

智课网GRE备考资料 新gre阅读真题解读剖析：【地球冷暖周期通过石头含铁量推定】 欢迎来到智课教育gre频道，这里为大家提供了最新最全面全面的备考资料，包括数学、阅读、写作等，欢迎各位gre考友观摩借鉴。智课教育gre频道在此祝愿大家考试顺利!  新GRE考试非常人性的一点，对于考题出的很严格，经过多次锤炼之后，能考验出考生们的水平。考生们可以根据题库的题目复习新GRE考试，下面就将新GRE阅读理解真题进行解析，为考生们彻底分析在GRE阅读中出现的真题，帮助考生们复习。  地球冷暖周期通过石头含铁量推定  Recent studies of sediment in the North Atlantic’s deepwaters reveal possible cyclical patterns in the history of Earth’s climate. Therock fragments in these sediments are too large to have been transported thereby ocean currents; they must have reached their present locations by travelingin large icebergs that floated long distances from their point of origin beforemelting.  Geologist Gerard Bond noticed that some of the sedimentgrains were stained with ironoxide, evidence that they originated in localeswhere glaciers had overrun outcrops of red sandstone. Bond’s detailed analysisof deep-water sediment cores showed changes in the mix of sediment sources overtime: the proportion of these red-stained grains fluctuated back and forth fromlows of 5 percent to highs of about 17 percent, and these fluctuations occurredin a nearly regular 1,500-year cycle.  Bond hypothesized that the alternating cycles might beevidence of changes in ocean-water circulation and therefore in Earth’sclimate. He knew that the sources of the red-stained grains were generallycloser to the North Pole than were the places yielding a high proportion of“clean” grains. At certain times, apparently, more icebergs from the ArcticOcean in the far north were traveling south well into the North Atlantic beforemelting and shedding their sediment. Ocean waters are constantly moving, andwater temperature is both a cause and an effect of this movement. As watercools, it becomes denser and sinks to the ocean’s bottom. During some periods,the bottom layer of the world’s oceans comes from cold, dense water sinking inthe far North Atlantic. This causes the warm surface waters of the Gulf Streamto be pulled northward.