Wyoming Drilling Site (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Wyoming Drilling Site

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A rainbow appears over National Science Foundation-funded drilling site in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin. In a study led by University of Utah geochemist Gabe Bowen, sediment cores drilled at the site revealed a global warming episode almost 56 million years ago resembled today's in terms of the size and duration of carbon releases to the atmosphere.

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Elisabeth Denis, Pennsylvania State University.

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