Lowering a Multicorer Device into the Ocean (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Lowering a Multicorer Device into the Ocean

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The multicorer device being lowered into the ocean takes eight one-foot cores from the seafloor. Scientists analyze such cores for clues to the climate of the past several thousand years.

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Peter deMenocal

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