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Lab: Vostok Ice Core Map showing Antarctica and location of Vostok Ice Core. Colors indicate elevation. I. Introduction Snow falling in the polar regions of the earth (e.g. Greenland and Antarctica) sometimes is preserved as annual layers within the ice sheets, provided that they are not destroyed by flow of the ice. These annual layers provide a record of the earths climate that reaches back as much as 200,000 years. Several different climate indicators can be measured from samples of the ice: The amount of dust in each annual layer is indicative of the environment at the time that the