Rough Seas (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Rough Seas

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Scientists extracted a 5.3 million-year record of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by drilling sediment cores in the Earth’s most remote waters. Here, the drill ship JOIDES Resolution makes its way through the far southeast Pacific.

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Gisela Winckler

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