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Collecting Cores in Thawing Permafrost, Alaska

By Florence Bascom Geoscience Center 2018 (approx.)
Scientist extract a sediment core from the permafrost plateaus in Alaska
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Cores were collected from various areas of thawing permafrost-peatlands in Alaska. Permafrost thaw results in ground subsidence and inundation that kills black spruce and other understory plants living on the permafrost plateau. 

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Public Domain.