Sentences with phrase «as zircons»

If they do that now, all they'll get is encrypted files, which are about as valuable as zircons.

As the zircons were radioactively dated to be as old as 4.25 billion years, the new findings suggest that carbon - based life may have been present on Earth within the first 300 million years after planetary formation, possibly as a «planetary mega-organism» in Earth's oceans (Michael Marshall, New Scientist, November 25, 2011).

Called TiZir, the joint venture was formed in 2011 with Limb's business contributing the mineral sands mine and initial processing infrastructure that separates the heavy metals extracted from the sand into materials such as zircon, rutile and ilmenite.

The team were also able to determine where the original material in the river came from by dating mineral grains such as zircon and mica, revealing the previous course of the river.

«Ultimately, we find that during intervals of high zircon production we have greenhouse conditions, and as zircon production diminishes, we see a shift into our icehouse conditions.»

Not exact matches

Perth - based explorer Image Resources has entered into an agreement for the purchase of a wet concentration plant, and an offtake deal for product from its Boonanarring mineral sands project near Gingin, with a Chinese zircon company to emerge as a major shareholder.

«Zircon as Earth's timekeeper: Are we reading the clock right?.»

«As a result, if the magnetic information in the zircons had been erased and re-recorded, the magnetic directions would have all been identical.»

Weiss» team found that the rock conglomerate the zircon crystals were in had been magnetized just 1 billion years ago, when it probably formed as part of a volcanic eruption nearby.

They then applied a precise dating technique based on natural radioactive decay of uranium, as Urs Schaltegger added: «In the sedimentary cross-sections, we found layers of volcanic ash containing the mineral zircon which incorporates uranium.

• Priceless Zircon In a jewelry store, a zircon can pass as a cheap diZircon In a jewelry store, a zircon can pass as a cheap dizircon can pass as a cheap diamond.

This alternate view of Earth's first geologic eon, called the Hadean, has gained substantial new support from the first detailed comparison of zircon crystals that formed more than 4 billion years ago with those formed contemporaneously in Iceland, which has been proposed as a possible geological analog for early Earth.

As Guy Simpson, a researcher at UNIGE further explains: «Modelling meant that we could establish how the age of crystallised zircon in a cooled magma reservoir depends on the flow rate of injected magma and the size of the reservoir.»

Professor Luca Caricchi adds: «When we determine the age of a family of zircons from a small sample of solidified magmatic rock, using results from the mathematical model we have developed, we can tell what the size of the entire magma chamber was, as well as how fast the magma reservoir grew.»

It is a story of three scientists: a modelling specialist, an expert in a tiny mineral known as «zircon,» and a volcanologist.

Portrait of a young planet The Jack Hills zircons show that a magnetic field existed as early as 4 billion years ago, fluctuating in strength from a value similar to today's — around 25 microteslas — to about 12 % of that.

The new study confirms that zircon crystals from Western Australia's Jack Hills region crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, building on earlier studies that used lead isotopes to date the Australian zircons and identify them as the oldest bits of the Earth's crust.

Instead of being randomly distributed in the sample, as predicted, lead atoms in the zircon were clumped together, like «raisins in a pudding,» notes Valley.

Zircons are only formed in particular volcanic eruptions that are triggered when continental masses crash into each other, so they act as a record of past continental collisions.

However, we can only go back in time so far, as the only material we have from the very early Earth comes in the form of tiny, naturally occurring zircon crystals.

Zircon contains lead, and this element can be removed from the mineral as it is melted and re-shaped by impacts.

As such, zircons can literally tell the entire history of the planet — if you know the right questions to ask.

Geologist have further said that the study on the zircon rocks would allow us to discover facts such as when water first existed on the Earth, how our climate changed and when life came on Earth.

Zircons carry other information as well.

Zircon is less common in other types of volcanic settings, such as hot spots like Hawaii or island arc volcanoes such as the Marianas, so the mineral can be used to track continental arc volcanism.

As the uranium and thorium decay, they produce lead isotopes that get trapped within the zircons.

Zircon is believed to be a protective stone, so wear it as a necklace close to your heat the next time you travel.

Baila as a Bridal looking stunning on her wedding day wearing Choker necklace and maala studded with zircon polkis and treated rubies.

Largely including music written by Andrew «zircon» Aversa (the game's programmer and designer), the Tangledeep soundtrack will also feature guest contributions by legendary composers such as Hiroki Kikuta of Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3 fame, Grant Kirkhope, composer for games like GoldenEye 007 and Banjo - Kazooie, and Norihiko Hibino, who has worked on such series as Metal Gear Solid, Yakuza, and Bayonetta.

I'll be kind & use the same in - the - ground prices as last year (approx. 10 % of medium / long term average spot prices): A price of $ 18 per tonne for ilmenite looks spot on, the $ 100 price for rutile's mostly irrelevant, and a $ 133 price for zircon's generous considering recent grading & pricing.

Largely including music written by Andrew «zircon» Aversa (the game's programmer and designer), the Tangledeep soundtrack will also feature guest contributions by legendary composers such as Hiroki Kikuta of Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3 fame, Grant Kirkhope, composer for games like GoldenEye 007 and Banjo - Kazooie, and Norihiko Hibino, who has worked on such series as Metal Gear Solid, Yakuza, and Bayonetta.

The arrangement features Jillian's vocal talents, while the musical backing comes as a collaboration with her husband, Andrew Aversa (a.k.a. «zircon»), who is an established composer himself, having worked on music for Soulcalibur V, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, and Monkey Island 2: SE.

As it stands, most of the best and interesting titles were released late in the console's short life - span with some even seeing 80s release dates from Zircon, the company that bought the rights to the Channel F.

In as much as humanity's entire experience on Earth is only during the last 10,000, it's sort of anticlimatic to talk about a grain of zircon in Australia that is over 4 billion years old.

You can call it «Magical mystery radiation from the planet Zircon» and as long as you use the same equations, you will get the same result: namely, the greenhouse effect.

For one example, Fuchsia's Zircon kernel describes itself as targeting «modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors.»