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Seafloor sediment reveals previously unknown volcanic eruption 520,000 years ago in south Aegean Sea
“Core on deck!” For two months, whenever I heard that cry, I would run up to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution to watch the crew pull up a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rock and sediment drilled from the seafloor …