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Reconstructing Environmental Change Using Lake Varves as a Climate Proxy

Science Scope—March 2012

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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