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A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean Conservancy's 2012 Coastal Cleanup.
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Picking Up Trash Along the Coast

A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean...
A close up of a sediment core.
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Sediment Core Close-Up

These deep-sea sediment cores were drilled from beneath the seafloor, and hold...
Red hot magma and ash erupt from an underwater volcano.
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An Underwater Volcanic Eruption

A volcanic eruption of superheated magma (some 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit) from the...
Superheated magma slowly leaks from a crack in the seafloor.
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Superheated Magma Underwater

Superheated magma, about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, glows orange as it slowly leaks...
A photo of an arid ocean cliff in Chile's Atacama Desert with the ocean below.
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Exploring Chile's Marine Fossil Record in the Atacama Desert

Smithsonian curator of fossil marine mammals Nick Pyenson and a team of...
A diagram of the different soil layers located at Hare Harbor, Quebec in 2008.  Wood chips were located at the deepest layer, then whale bone, then codfish bones.
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Underwater Archaeological Stratigraphy

An underwater archaeological stratigraphy reveals the different levels of soil in...
Trash Sculpture on the Beach in Bonaire
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Marine Debris: Trash Travels, But You Can Help Stop It

Marine debris--or trash that has washed or been dumped into our ocean and coastal...
Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates geologic features similar to pingos on the Arctic Ocean floor where methane bubbles through sediments and forms hundreds of low hills. On land, a pingo is a place where permafrost bulges beneath a dried lake bed like this one in northern Canada.
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Ocean “Pingos”

Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates...
A student uses a marker to decorate a reusable lunch bag with ocean creatures
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Design Your Own Bag

Marine debris damages habitat, entangles wildlife, helps transport invasive...
a colored shakemap from the M5.8 Virginia Earthquake depicts the shake range and epicenter of the earthquake
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Map of the Magnitude 5.8 Virginia Earthquake of 2011

On August 23, 2011 a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the East Coast of the United...
10 grains of star shaped sand collected from southern Japan
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Star Sand Grains Collected from Southern Japan

These star-shaped grains of sand, collected from southern Japan, look like...
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