drilling down beneath a lake in alaska yields chemical evidence of past changes in climate. biological silicon, left by the skeletons of single celled creatures called diatoms, is a measure of the...

drilling down beneath a lake in alaska yields chemical evidence of past changes in climate. biological silicon, left by the skeletons of single celled creatures called diatoms, is a measure of the abundance of life in the lake. a rather complex variable based on the ratio of certain isotopes relative to ocean water gives an indirect measure of moisture, mostly from snow. as we drill down, we look further into the past, here is a scatterplot of data from 2300 to 12000 years ago

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Extracted text: called diatoms, is a measure of the abundance of life in the lake. A rather complex variable based on the ratio of certain isotopes relative to ocean water gives an indirect measure of moisture, mostly from snow. As we drill down, we look further into the past. Here is a scatterplot of data from 2300 to 12,000 years ago: 350 300- 250 200 150 100- 50 0- -21.8 -21.4 -21.0 20.6 -20.2 -19.8 19.4 Isotope (a) Identify the unųsual point in the scatterplot. Explain what's unusual about this point. Silicon