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Researchers take a sediment core from a lake in Alaska.
Researchers (R.S. Anderson, A. Werner and T. Diagle) take a sediment core from the bottom of Goat Lake in south-central Alaska, which is 50 meters below the surface.
Credit: Darrell Kaufman, Northern Arizona University
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