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Limits RegistryThe European 'Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice' project reached bedrock at Little Dome C, East Antarctica, in January 2025, at a depth of roughly 2,800 m — recovering a continuous ice-core climate record estimated to extend back about 1.2 million years, more than 400,000 years further back than the previous record held by the original EPICA Dome C core (about 800,000 years). The extended record is expected to help explain why the pace of Earth's ice ages shifted roughly 900,000-1,200,000 years ago.
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The European 'Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice' project reached bedrock at Little Dome C, East Antarctica, in January 2025, at a depth of roughly 2,800 m — recovering a continuous ice-core climate record estimated to extend back about 1.2 million years, more than 400,000 years further back than the previous record held by the original EPICA Dome C core (about 800,000 years). The extended record is expected to help explain why the pace of Earth's ice ages shifted roughly 900,000-1,200,000 years ago.
The greatest age of any continuous, dated climate record recovered from a single ice core.
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Limits Registry. LR-DEEPEST-OLDEST-ICE-CORE. Oldest continuous ice-core climate record. 2026.