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redOrbit: Modern climatologists have access to a wide array of technological tools, but an international team looking to study climate events from the past thousand years has decided to utilize something a little more old school.
Researchers led by Alan Wanamaker from Iowa State University have been collecting clam shells from the waters of the North Atlantic because the mollusks act as tiny recorders, storing information about their environment in the growth bans that runs along their shells. As these......
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Clam Shells Record Climate Events Over Past Thousand Years
Posted by redOrbit: Brett Smith on October 2nd, 2012
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