Sentences with phrase «accumulated over hundreds of years»

Pointing his camera straight down at the ancient, grimy surface of the streets, which are composed of a patchwork of fragments accumulated over hundreds of years, Marclay utilizes the trash and debris to create a choreography of moving shapes that dance across the surface of the screen.

Not exact matches

Either way, the data show that the January tremor did not release all the stress that has accumulated in the fault system over hundreds of years.

Over these hundreds of thousands of years our Big Game Hunting, small prey capturing, scavenging, foraging, gathering, opportunistic ancestors accumulated experience and wisdom about nourishing themselves.

The on - board e-reader organizational tools are fine for a handful of books, but for dozens or hundreds of books accumulated over the years, they're inadequate.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner's gift of nearly five hundred fifty works of art to the Whitney Museum and more than three hundred to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, this catalogue presents highlights of the extraordinary contemporary art collection the couple has accumulated over the course of more than thirty years.

Unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases (at least over the last few hundred thousand years) continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and the global climate (land surface, ocean, glaciers, stratosphere) continues to respond as predicted by theory and models.

Since the first thoughts of a possible human influence on climate over a hundred years ago, more and more evidence has accumulated and the idea gradually gained credibility.

Energy accumulated over millions of years is being released in a few hundred years.

Adding the mass of ice that had accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years on the ice sheet to the mass of seawater that freezes on the surface seems pretty useless to me.

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.