Sentences with phrase «ancient lake beds»

Curiosity has spent the last five years exploring an ancient lake bed.

COVER Clouds pass over Kenya's Lake Magadi, where geologists are drilling a core to gather detailed climate data from the ancient lake bed.

That the fossil was found in what was once an ancient lake bed suggests that this particular rodent may have made an unfortunate mistake — it may accidentally have landed on the lake and drowned.

Since desiccation mudcracks form only where wet sediment is exposed to air, their position closer to the center of the ancient lake bed rather than the edge also suggests that lake levels rose and fell dramatically over time.

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Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth's atmosphere began to contain oxygen, according to researchers from the U.S., Canada and Japan.

The intrepid robotic explorer successfully completed its primary scientific objective when it discovered strong evidence early on in its mission that a place called Yellowknife Bay near its landing site, constitutes an ancient dried - out lake bed which was once filled with drinkable liquid water billions of years ago and could have sustained life — if any were present.

Diatomaceous earth is mined from underwater beds or from ancient dried lake bottoms thousands of years old.

In typical Zelda fashion, Link's quest to free Hyrule from the Twilight realm's moody veil lead you through a variety of dangerous locations, including fiery mountains, deep lake beds, gloomy alternate dimensions, and ancient prisons.

The geography of the Hudson Valley is immensely rich: The terrain features sandstone, red beds, granite cliffs, dense forests and charming lakes, as well as highly fertile soil for farming, such as in the Black Dirt Region created from an ancient glacial lake, and a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna.

Elegant Room with panoramic view over the Tuscan countryside of the Valdichiana Decorated in tones of orange and yellow, with a comfortable queen - size bed and a hand - painted wardrobe, this light and welcoming room overlooks the Valdichiana and its lakes through a wide window set in the ancient city walls.

Other crater lakes are situated much closer to the surrounding ground level, set inside ancient, dead volcanic crater beds.