Sentences with phrase «ocean sediment reveals»

Ocean sediment reveals the pattern behind the rise and fall of ice ages and the shape of Earth's orbit.

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Using sophisticated three - dimensional laser scanning and digital photograph analyses, sections of the rocks revealed burrows or trails left behind by trilobites and their prey — often worm - like creatures — in ocean sediments.

So DNA from buried sediments could be used to track the abundance of different species over time, revealing changes in ocean temperature.

Using hand - driven cores, augers, and shovels to reveal the sediments blanketing a lowland facing the Pacific Ocean, and using radiocarbon dating to estimate the times of sand sheet deposition, scientists established a geologic history of past large tsunamis.

Ocean floor mud reveals secrets of past European climateSamples of sediment taken from the ocean floor of the North Atlantic Ocean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 yOcean floor mud reveals secrets of past European climateSamples of sediment taken from the ocean floor of the North Atlantic Ocean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 yocean floor of the North Atlantic Ocean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 yOcean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 years.

A recent study by Moffitt and colleagues of seafloor sediments from the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 to 17,000 years ago, revealed that Pacific Ocean ecosystems from the Arctic to Chile «extensively and abruptly lost oxygen when the planet warmed through deglaciation,» she said.

Nørgaard - Pedersen, N., Mikkelsen, N., Lassen, S. J., Kristoffersen, Y. & Sheldon, E. Reduced sea ice concentrations in the Arctic Ocean during the last interglacial period revealed by sediment cores off northern Greenland.

Nearly four years ago, geological surveys of the Arctic Ocean seafloor revealed the presence of shells buried deep in its sediment.