Year Bands (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Year Bands

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A polished cross-section of Clathromorphum nereostratum's skeleton, which contains "year bands" akin to tree rings. Such year bands were used to reconstruct the history of urchin grazing in the ecosystem.

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D. Rasher

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