An interdisciplinary research team aboard WHOI-operated research vessel Neil Armstrong collected the deepest sediment sample core from the Atlantic Ocean. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

David Fastovich (left) led a study that used pollen data from lake sediment cores to track how tree populations respond to climate change. In the photo above, he is shown sampling a sediment core ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the first U. S. institutions to undertake large-scale collection of sediment cores, has historically been a leader in core curation. The Sediment Core and ...

Sediment samples, called cubes, taken for future paleomagnetic research and marked styrofoam plugs identify where samples were taken for ‘moisture and density’ (MAD) measurements. Stefanie ...

A new health risk emerged from the sediment in New Orleans — test results show that diesel and fuel oils, which can take years to break down, make up as much as a 10th of the weight of some samples.