Coring the Basin (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Coring the Basin

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With the damming of the Chagres River over a century ago, Gatun lake was formed. Jorge Salgado retrieved sediment cores from a basin in the lake and built a chronological sequence of biological and environmental changes.

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Jorge Salgado / STRI

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