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The pristine top of a core.

The pristine top of a core.
The pristine top of a core.
The pristine top of a core.
The pristine top of a core.
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Saenz, James
The pristine top of a core.
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07/05/2003
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Core tops: Gathered around a fresh marine sediment core from 400 meters depth in the central Makassar Strait, Indonesia. The texture of sediment surface is pristine. Taken on a paleoceanographic coring cruise to the Makassar Strait, Indonesia (WHOI PI, Delia Oppo) on the Baruna Jaya VIII during the summer of 2003. The sediment was collected with a multi-core, which is designed to collect a pristine, undisturbed sample of the top few feet of the sediment and preserve the texture of surface.
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A core pulled from the top few feet of the floor of the Makassar Strait (near Indonesia) shows the most recently deposited marine sediments. Sediments can be used which enable researchers to reconstruct the history of changes that have occurred in the region to paint a picture of temperature, salinity, currents, and climate during the past few centuries. The Makassar Strait, also known as the Indonesian Throughflow, is the primary route for surface water exchange between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the currents in the area are closely linked to El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation variability. The 2003 coring expedition was led by Yair Rosenthal, former MIT/WHOI Joint Program student (now a professor at Rutgers University), WHOI Senior Scientist Delia Oppo, and Brad Linsley of the State University of New York at Albany.
Photo by James Saenz
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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