Sediment 1 (IMAGE)

Rice University

Sediment 1

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Sediments under Lake Tanganyika in Africa store chemicals that give paleoclimatologists information about atmospheric conditions in ancient times. A Rice University professor has created a computational model that helps translate what they find.

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Courtesy of Sylvia Dee/Rice University

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