Collecting samples (IMAGE)

Binghamton University

Collecting samples

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Scientists lower a hollow metal tube (a freeze core) filled with dry ice and ethanol to collect sediment samples from the lake bottom. Like rings of a tree, each layer of sediment in Crawford Lake can be dated to a specific year.

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Brock University

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