“Core on deck!” For two months, whenever I heard that cry, I would run up to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution to watch the crew pull up a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rock and sediment drilled from the seafloor beneath our ship. “Core on deck!” For two months, whenever I heard that cry, I would run up to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution to watch the crew pull up a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rock and sediment drilled from the seafloor beneath our ship. Earth Sciences Environment Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
Seafloor sediment reveals previously unknown volcanic eruption 520,000 years ago in south Aegean Sea
