LSU: Researchers Find Climate Change Record in Clam Shells
December 11, 2021
December 11, 2021
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 11 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2021:
The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, researchers have been able to identify the monthly, and even weekly, ocean temperatures recorded in these smooth clam shells. Because ancient civilizations consumed these u . . .
The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, researchers have been able to identify the monthly, and even weekly, ocean temperatures recorded in these smooth clam shells. Because ancient civilizations consumed these u . . .