Scientist uses sedimentary record to uncover planet's past
Friday, February 27, 2009 - 14:42
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- The wind barreled across the ice at Daily Lake as Montana State University paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock and three students used all their strength to pull a metal pipe out of the mucky lake bottom. With much effort, they hauled up 16,000 years of history from the glacial lake.