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Seafloor sediment reveals previously unknown volcanic eruption in southern Aegean Sea 520,000 years ago

“Core on deck!” For two months, every time I heard that scream, I would run to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution and watch as the crew removed a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rocks and sediments that had been drilled from the seabed beneath our ship. The crew drilled more than… Read More »