Probing the Pliocene
by Kathryn Fitzsimmons, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
The heights we go to for science... sampling for palaeoclimatic reconstruction of early loess in Central Asia was made possible by abseil. This 80 m sequence of fluvial, alluvial and aeolian sediments can be found at Charyn Canyon, southeast Kazakhstan.
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- Asia (1061)
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- Exact location (78.9979 E, 43.2647 N)
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iPhone SE iPhone SE back camera 4.15mm 2/2.2
Taken on 23
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2017
Submitted on 14 February 2018
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Kathryn Fitzsimmons (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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