Sentences with phrase «if diatoms»

If diatoms could be made to similarly secrete the oil they produce, then it could be easily harvested.

If diatom layers are a major factor, then understanding where paleoclimate conditions may have favored diatom growth might help reveal potential mega-slide sites.

Not exact matches

According to Sugden, however, the remnants of trees, pollen and diatoms can all be explained even if the ice remained frozen.

The oil can be as much as a quarter of the total mass of a diatom cell, and if a way could be found to efficiently wrest it from diatoms, he adds, a hectare of «diatom cultivation could produce 10 to up to 200 times the oil that is produced by soybean cultivation,» Ramachandra says.

And yet, it's also possible that up to 44 % of the carbon grabbed by these plentiful diatoms could be left in the atmosphere, if we continue with business as usual.

If there is plenty of silicate, marine organisms called diatoms will grow more happily.

If there is very little silicate available, organisms called coccolithophores grow more readily than diatoms.

Thus any process which tends to favor the growth of organisms made from silicate, such as diatoms, over organisms made from carbonate, such as the coccolithophorids, will tend to lower the atmospheric CO2 concentration — and vice versa — even if the total organic biomass formed in the surface layer and sinking from that layer remains constant.

And yet, it's also possible that up to 44 % of the carbon grabbed by these plentiful diatoms could be left in the atmosphere, if we continue with business as usual.

Without knowing if, for example, industrialised agriculture has tipped the oceans from calcareous phyto production to silicaceous diatoms, and thus reduced light C pulldown, I can not understand how we can assign the increase just to what is coming out of our chimneys.