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Sediment Core Collected from a Well at Jamesport, New York

By New York Water Science Center
long tube of claylike soil with plastic bag above it
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Sediment Core Collected from a Well at Jamesport, New York: The image above shows a sediment-core sample collected during the drilling of monitoring well S-13428 in Jamesport, NY in September, 2017.  This sample was collected from a depth of 220 feet below land surface using the split-spoon coring method. Sediment-core samples provide information on the subsurface geology (Public domain).

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Public Domain.