Sentences with phrase «mud core samples»
As a professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University she's spent decades analyzing mud core samples drilled from lakes around the world to examine climate and fire going back thousands of years.
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Recently, he and his colleagues examined samples of a mud core extracted from between 860 metres and 1626 metres beneath the sea floor off the coast of Newfoundland.
The team also took core samples of mud from 1 to 2 meters below the seafloor and analyzed ancient pollen to determine the age of the samples.
Most of our time was spent cruising around the Bermuda Rise, a cluster of extinct underwater volcanos near Bermuda, pausing to take core samples of the mud whenever the conditions looked good.
Spreads jump from topic to topic, from rainforests to tree rings, oceanic mud samples to 800,000 - year - old ice cores.