Researchers deMenocal and Tierney with Sediment Core (IMAGE)

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Researchers deMenocal and Tierney with Sediment Core

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Researchers Peter deMenocal and Jessica Tierney examine a sediment core at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Scientists can use such cores of marine sediments to figure out what the climate was thousands of years ago.

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Credit: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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