Ice core

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What Wikipedia says

An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier. Since the ice forms from the incremental buildup of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper ones, and an ice core contains ice formed over a range of years.

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Image: Photo by Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.