Researchers obtained their cores by running the drill through the ship's moon pool. During a five-week expedition off the coast of Barbados, the team drilled and recovered cores from ancient, fossilized coral reefs. The coral cores will provide a record of the rise and fall of Earth?s sea level over the past 40,000 years?deep into Earth?s last ice age, which ended roughly 10,000 years ago. (Photo by Kathy Ellins, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin)[back]
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