Deep Past (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Deep Past

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Sediments laid down in what is now Arizona more than 200 million years ago, before the rise of dinosaurs, were matched with similar earlier cores taken in New York and New Jersey. Here, a freshly pulled core.

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Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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