As their study published in Science Advances detailed, the researchers drilled sediment core samples from the bottom of three lakes: Seksu, Pinku, and Usmas. Lake Pinku and Usmas are located in ...

The Sediment Core and Microfossil Collections contain samples collected from as early as 1916. William R. Riedel became the first curator of Geological Collections in 1955. He began to gather private ...

While the Great Blue Hole has silently recorded history for thousands of years, its latest revelations are a loud warning.

The lab is also equipped with field equipment for recovery of sediment cores and tree-ring samples, including two Livingstone-type square-rod piston corer with 50 m of¾ ” diameter steel rod, a 33"L ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have obtained the first historical record of plastic pollution in ...

The samples and measurements are used for help reconstruct past climate and environmental conditions. X-radiograph of glacial marine sediments in West Greenland sediment core JR175-VC24, showing ...

Elizabeth Thomas, UB assistant professor of geology, holds a sediment core -- a cylindrical sample of lakebed mud. Such samples contain organic matter that can be analyzed to learn about a region ...