Sentences with phrase «ancient rock records»

Despite their violence, very little is known about silicic eruptions and most knowledge about them comes from ancient rock records, which lack details such as the timing, duration, source, and water depth of the events.

And I'd have to say that if I have to save my life by winning an argument with oil men in a bar in Midland, Tex., on this topic, I would go in with some lumps of black mudstone from the ancient rock record, I'd go in with the established figures on our present input of carbon dioxide, and I'd say which bit of this observational science do you guys quarrel with, and why?

Not exact matches

The island is one of the best places to peer into the history of Earth's magnetic field because its fluctuations are recorded in the ancient volcanic rock.

So if — big if — life ever arose on Mars, not only could we find out, yeah, there is life somewhere else in the solar system, but the record of how that miracle occurred would still be preserved in these ancient rocks.

Though absent today, this ancient field is recorded in rocks retrieved from the moon's surface and in magnetized patches of crust spied by orbiting spacecraft.

The geological search for ancient life frequently zeroes in on fossilized organic structures or biominerals that can serve as «biosignatures,» that survive in the rock record over extremely long time scales.

Wandering past these lovable couples is the film's ancient mariner, a broken - down rock star named Billy Mack, who is played by Bill Nighy as if Keith Richards had never recorded anything but crap, and knew it.

Samples of speleothems, ancient cave deposits, wall rock and video records collected by The Cambrian Foundation provided necessary data to scientists.

The earth is ancient, we have a rock record and fanciful stuff like that isn't happening.