Sentences with phrase «quaternary environments»

Williams, L.D. and Bradley, R.S., 1985: Paleoclimatology of the Baffin Bay region, p. 741 - 772, in: Quaternary Environments: The Eastern Canadian Arctic, Baffin Bay and West Greenland, Andrews, J.T. (ed.)

But, opting for Geography in my honours years I unsuspectingly chose a «Quaternary Environments» course.

Not exact matches

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

«Zika can survive on hard, non-porous surfaces for as long as eight hours, possibly longer when the environment contains blood, which is more likely to occur in the real world,» said the study's lead researcher S. Steve Zhou, Ph.D. «The good news is that we found that disinfectants such as isopropyl alcohol and quaternary ammonium / alcohol are generally effective in killing the virus in this type of environment and can do so in a little as 15 seconds.»

Optically - Stimulated Luminescence is a late Quaternary dating technique used to date Case studies of OSL dating in glacial environments.

The one good thing is that the virus doesn't survive for much longer than a few hours at room temperature and is pretty easily killed in the environment by bleach or quaternary ammonium disinfectants.

And based upon late Quaternary stratigraphic data from peninsular Florida's shelf and coastal zone, historic wetland accumulation rates, and residence time of coastal construction projects (i.e. beach «nourishment», dune «restoration»), by mid-century the rate of predicted sea level rise will result in erosional shoreface retreat and ultimately overstep of both the natural and built environment.

T.M.L.'s work is part of the Natural Environment Research Council GENIEfy (NE / C515904), Quaternary QUEST (NE / D001706), and Feedbacks QUEST (NE / F001657) projects.