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.
Taken on 23
May
2017
Submitted on 14 February 2018
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