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Taking a coral core in the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama

By Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program 2016 (approx.)
A scientist drives a 20 foot long aluminum tube into a coral reef to collect a coral core.
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Collecting a coral core in the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama, by forcing a 20-foot aluminum tube into the reef. This core retrieved about 6,000 years of reef history.

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Public Domain.