Cores (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Cores

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The researchers integrated data from samples of subducting rock and sediment around seamounts, like these cores which were drilled from offshore Japan in 2000. The cores contain a mixture of rock, sediments and water and give researchers insight into what happens as a seamount is ground between tectonic plates.

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Demian Saffer

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