Sentences with phrase «accumulated over thousands of years»

Antarctic land ice is the ice which has accumulated over thousands of years on the Antarctica landmass itself through snowfall.

When mangroves, seagrasses or tidal marshes are destroyed, they not only lose their capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, but also emit carbon that is estimated to have accumulated over thousands of years.

The burning of tropical peatlands is so significant for greenhouse gas emissions because these areas store some of the highest quantities of carbon on Earth, accumulated over thousands of years.

The world's permafrost is packed with the remnants of plants and animals accumulated over thousands of years, and it contains twice as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere.

Ice keeps a record of environmental changes as it accumulates over thousands of years, so the longer the core, the better.

These deposits gradually accumulate over thousands of years and tell us what happened in the ocean in the past.

Not exact matches

Within the disk, tiny dust grains accumulate layers of ice over thousands 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.

We have accumulated thousands of pages of notes over the years on companies we've researched, and we felt that our research might be valuable to other like - minded investors.

Locked away for thousands of years, this dark plane became overrun with horrific demonic entities that safeguard a massive subterranean treasure accumulated over the centuries.

Mr Clark, 71 found himself faced with the question of what to do with the thousands of unique prints he had accumulated over the 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.

If that makes the science unsettled when compared to the billions of data points accumulated by thousands of real climate scientists working over fifty years, then nothing will ever be settled enough for you.

This permafrost carbon is the remnant of plants and animals accumulated in perennially frozen soil over thousands of years, and the permafrost region contains twice as much carbon as there is currently in the atmosphere.

Nevertheless, as pieces of evidence accumulated, a growing number of scientists found it plausible that the climate over large regions, if not the entire world, had sometimes changed markedly in a thousand years or even less.

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.

The amount of savings you can accumulate over the span of your years as a driver can turn into thousands upon thousands of dollars.