Sediment Core (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Sediment Core

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University at Buffalo researcher Elizabeth Thomas holds half of a sediment core collected from the lake in western Greenland where the study was sited. Such sediment cores contain aquatic leaf waxes that reveal information about the history of precipitation at a site.

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Credit: Douglas Levere

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