{"id":38849,"date":"2023-06-20T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38849"},"modified":"2023-06-20T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:07:32","slug":"word-of-the-day-890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/06\/20\/word-of-the-day-890\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Freeze corer<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To extract [Lake Crawford&#8217;s] layered sediments, the team used a tool called a \u201cfreeze corer,\u201d but more affectionately known as \u201cthe frozen finger.\u201d The long aluminum wedge was filled with a mixture of alcohol and dry ice, making it much colder than the surrounding water, soil and air.<\/p>\n<p>They suspended the freeze corer from a tripod and lowered it through a hole in the raft. Down, down it went, through 75 feet of water, until finally it sank into the squishy mud on the lake bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Then they waited. It would take about 40 minutes for the lake sediments to freeze onto the corer\u2019s chilly surface. <em>[&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2023\/anthropocene-geologic-time-crawford-lake\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;itid=mr_1&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3a5a768%2F6491ce2290e29b5cbf4382fb%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F14%2F72%2F6491ce2290e29b5cbf4382fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIDDEN BENEATH THE SURFACE<\/a>,&#8221; Sarah Kaplan, <strong>WaPo<\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeze corer: To extract [Lake Crawford&#8217;s] layered sediments, the team used a tool called a \u201cfreeze corer,\u201d but more affectionately known as \u201cthe frozen finger.\u201d The long aluminum wedge was filled with a mixture of alcohol and dry ice, making it much colder than the surrounding water, soil and air. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/06\/20\/word-of-the-day-890\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38850,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849\/revisions\/38850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}