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 ...

We perform chemical and physical analyses on sediments and other materials. The samples and measurements are used for help reconstruct past climate and environmental conditions. X-radiograph of ...

During its oceanographic survey in the Amundsen Sea, China's 41st Antarctic expedition team successfully utilized a long piston gravity corer to perform gravity core sampling operations, obtaining ...

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 ...

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

Such samples contain organic matter that can be analyzed to learn about a region's past climate. The new study was based on data from a sediment core extracted from the bottom of Sikuiui Lake in ...