A sediment core, collected from the seafloor using the ROV. With such slow rates of sedimentation on the abyssal plains of the CCZ, this core could represent thousands and thousands of years of deposition.
A Sediment Core
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A sediment core, collected from the seafloor using the ROV. With such slow rates of sedimentation on the abyssal plains of the CCZ, this core could represent thousands and thousands of years of deposition.

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