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A Clearer Picture of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (3 of 8)

Caption: This shows the Joides Resolution, used for deep sea drilling to recover ocean sediment cores. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 10, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Henry Elderfield at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, “Evolution of Ocean Temperature and Ice Volume Through the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition.”

Credit: [Photograph courtesy of William Crawford, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program US Implementing Organiztion (IODP-USIO)]

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