Reconstructing Environmental Change Using Lake Varves as a Climate Proxy

by: David Anastasio, Dork Sahagian, Christopher Dempsey, Alec Bodzin, and Lori Cirucci

This article describes an investigative activity in which eighth-grade students reconstructed past environmental change in the New England area using data from lake varves in central Vermont to examine evidence of climate change.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2012Stock # ss12_035_07_42Volume 035Issue 07

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