The <i>Nature</i> Cover (IMAGE)

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The <i>Nature</i> Cover

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The Nature cover shows a selection of fossilized pollen from sediment cores collected from East Antarctica's continental shelf. These ancient remains were used by Sean Gulick, Amelia Shevenell and their colleagues to help date sediments eroded from the Aurora Subglacial Basin and document the evolution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet over the past 55 million years.

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Sophie Warny, Louisiana State University

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