Sentences with phrase «buried peats»

«These include the sharp mud - over-peat contacts that are laterally continuous over 5 kilometers, changes in fossil foraminifera assemblages across the buried peat contacts, long - lasting submergence also derived from fossil foraminifera records, and radiocarbon ages of plant macrofossils taken from buried peat deposits that are consistent with other southern Cascadia earthquake chronologies derived from buried peat and tsunami deposits.»

Not exact matches

Almost 20 years ago, she buried small bags of peat in a Canadian bog to study their decomposition.

Raging forest fires are releasing carbon that has been buried in peat for thousands of years, inching the world closer to breaching warming targets

Fossil fuels — the hydrocarbons known as peat, coal, oil, and natural gas — are formed from the constituents of deeply buried and preserved organic matter.

It's a window into history as well: bodies preserved in peat bogs and glaciers allow for a look into life thousands of years ago, as do artifacts buried with the dead.

Fergus and his uncle find a girl's body buried in a peat bog at the start of this novel, told in parallel narratives, of two young people who sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

Wein reads notes at the end, discussing the history of tinkers, Scottish pearls and mussels, and Viking log boats buried in peat.

Even when trees die, only some of the material returns to the atmosphere as CO2 and methane, while other parts become buried and eventually turn into peat and ultimately into coal.

In addition, they ignore natural burning of fossil fuels including forest fires, long - burning coal seams and peat; as Hans Erren noted, fossil coal is buried wood.

Energy Coal - remains of plants that have undergone carbonization Occurs when partially decomposed plant material is buried in swamp mud and becomes peat.

15 Fossil Fuels: Coal Decaying plant matter, when buried under sediment, eventually forms peat (very moist, compact) Further compaction, over time, forces the moisture out of the peat — forms a layer of lignite More compression (compaction), and more moisture is removed, forming a layer of soft coal (bituminous) Higher pressure and higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite) Coal

However, these models do not yet include many processes and reservoirs that may be important, such as peat, buried carbon in permafrost soils, wild fires, ocean eddies and the response of marine ecosystems to ocean acidification.

When large areas of peat - accumulating swamps are buried, additional carbon is trapped and forms coal.