Saturday, November 20, 2010

Scientists Dig Into Dead Sea

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dead sea history worksScientists are coring into the Dead Sea floor to reveal more about regional climate change and earthquakes over time.
Five hundred thousand years of Earth’s history is expected to be bored out of the Dead Sea, reports UPI. A multi-national team of scientists have started drilling from a platform near the Dead Sea resort of Ein Boqeq in Israel. The researchers will take a thin slice of Earth’s history through a 3,937-foot-deep borehole and will examine the layers f sediment like rings on a tree, or core samples from icebergs in the North Pole. … [visit site to read more]

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