At Sea for Science, Part 3: Digging into the cores
Channel: Maggie Koerth
Date: 2012-09-05

In the summer of 2012, 126 people spent two months at sea on board the Joides Resolution. Their goal: Collect samples from the floor of the North Atlantic and learn what Earth's climate was like tens of millions of years ago. In this final video (part 3 of 3), you'll see what happens to the samples of sea-floor sediment after they're brought on deck, and you'll learn about how scientists use ancient mud to study climate. 

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