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piston core
A device for extracting columns of sediment from the ocean floor. Dates for the different layers are obtained by radiocarbon, archaeomagnetic, or uranium series methods.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Archaeology
- Category: Human evolution
- Company: ArchaeologyInfo.com
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