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Pacific Coral Reefs Collapsed for Thousands of Years (5 of 5)

Caption: (Left to right) Authors Ian Macintyre and Steven Vollmer force an aluminum core tube into a reef framework. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the July 6, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.T. Toth at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla., and colleagues was titled, "ENSO Drove 2500-Year Collapse of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs."

Credit: [Photo credit: Richard Aronson]

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