Marine sediment coring from the icebreaker Shirase during the 61st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (2019–2020). (IMAGE)

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Marine sediment coring from the icebreaker Shirase during the 61st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (2019–2020).

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A large cylindrical coring device is deployed vertically into the seafloor and recovered to obtain sediment cores.
A video of the field survey conducted on the Antarctic continent is available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LCU4BZKmyWbvjpklxHPYLZCTbRlSrDip?usp=sharing

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The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

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