Uurgat Lava Field in Mongolia (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Uurgat Lava Field in Mongolia

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This photo shows the Uurgat lava field with the Khangai Mountains in the background and the seasonal homes of nomadic herders in the lower right. An international team of researchers took wood samples of the Siberian pines growing on the lava field to construct a drought chronology reaching two centuries into the past.

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Scott Nichols

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