Canoe Coring Platform in Black Pond, Potomac River, Virginia
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Photo shows sediment cores resting in a canoe coring platform. Researchers Jess Rodysill and Michael Toomey (Reston) are investigating the history of large river floods along the Potomac River using sediment proxies from Black Pond cores.
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