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To be honest, the only thing I’ve ever learned from pluff mud is I wish I’d worn an older pair of sneakers every time I step in it, ’cause 9 times out of 10, they’re ready for the trash after that.

Anyway, just like the ice cores I’ve learned about on the Discovery Channel, scientists have been saving up mud samples from around the world too. The earliest mud core from the Deep-Sea Sample Repository is a 1947 sample.

That may not seem that long ago, but the 5′ mud cores hold tons of data about the climate, including: water salinity, CO2 density, and other footprints that, when analyzed over time, are valuable sources of information for scientists. With it, they learn about global conditions present from a mud core’s time line in history.

Here is a short video of the World’s Largest Collection of Deep Sea Dirt or pluff mud.

_{This was not a Pluff Mud Production©… Hey Bat!}

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