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  • How Illinois scientists are perfecting the analysis of past climate change

    Oct 28, 2019 10:15 am by BTN Live B1GResearch
    Illinois professor Bruce Fouke SCUBA dives to collect coral samples

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    • Illinois professor Bruce Fouke SCUBA dives to collect coral samples

    Researchers can analyze isotope concentrations in the layers that coral form throughout their lives. Much like analyzing the rings of a tree, these layers give a year-by-year accounting of the state of the planet.