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Deep-Lake Coring

Caption: Brown-led researchers and staff take cores from Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-deepest lake. Each core was 8 m (26 feet) long and taken at depths of 650 m (2,133 feet). The cores were collected in 2004 as part of the Nyanza Project and were analyzed in 2006 and 2007.

Credit: The Nyanza Project, University of Arizona

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