Pacific Coral Reefs Collapsed for Thousands of Years (4 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Pacific Coral Reefs Collapsed for Thousands of Years (4 of 5)

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Scientists (from left) Ian Macintyre, Lauren Toth, Luis Camillo, and David Combosch force an aluminum core tube into a reef framework at low tide. 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."

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