Sentences with phrase «ancient lake bottom»

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.

Not exact matches

A thin layer of oxygen trapped at the bottom of an Antarctic lake seems to recreate the conditions on ancient Earth

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

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

Now, some in the community have found their way back, including one family that has opened The 3,000 - year - old remains of an ancient fortification have been discovered at the bottom of Turkey's largest lake.

From the University of California — Berkeley Deep sediments are unparalleled record of biotic changes over past 200,000 + years University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals will adapt to climate change...

A recent study of ancient lake - bottom sediments found layers of charcoal next to layers of shrub pollen, suggesting a close link between shrubs and wildfire.

Geologically speaking Hillsboro is located in a large, flat, and ancient dried lake bottom surrounded by some of the most fertile farmland in the world.