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stories from the abyss  28 August 2012 Southampton, University
of  A team of scientists including those from the University of
Southampton have shed new light on the world's history of
climate change.  The Pacific Ocean has remained the largest of
all oceans on the planet for many million years. It covers one
third of the Earth's surface and has a mean depth of 4.2 km. Its
biologically productive equatorial regions play an important
role particularly to the global carbon cycle and long-term
climate development.  During a four-month expedition of the
Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP) on board the US
drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution an international team of more
than 100 scientists and technicians recovered 6.3 kilometers of
sediment cores from water depths between 4.3 and 5.1 km and
drilled 6.3 km of sediment cores at eight locations.  The cores
offered an excellent archive of Earth's history and showed how
global climate development during