Sentences with phrase «by geologists»

Marl is a word often used by geologists for the type of dark - coloured limestone, which has given rise to this spectacular countryside.

In 2010, a team led by geologist Sofia Sinitsa of the Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and Cryology in the Siberian city of Chita, Russia, discovered some dino fossils in the nearby Kulinda valley.

An advanced imaging technique used to map Earth's outer shell also can provide a measure of strength, finding weak spots and magma upwellings that could point to volcanic or earthquake activity, according to a new study by geologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and the University of Adelaide in Australia.

This false colour image was put together by geologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, combining data gathered by a remote sensing instrument known as TIMS, Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner, with a digital elevation model.

An enormous quantity of nodules, almost pure magnesium carbonate, were discovered by geologists looking for gold.

Under Kircher's drawing is an early sonar map of the seafloor in the Pacific Ocean, made by geologists Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen in 1969 (SN: 10/6/12, p. 30).

Did data provided by geologist got mixed in with weather records?

This outstanding lecture by geologist Richard Alley is IMHO considered must - viewing for anyone seeking to understand the role of carbon dioxide throughout Earth's history.

This was the question raised by geologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE, Switzerland) working in partnership with the University of Orléans, University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and the ICTJA - CSIC Institute in Barcelona.

A study conducted by geologists from the University of Leicester and zoologist David Aldridge of Cambridge University has revealed the irreversible effects of industrialization on England's landscape, reinforcing the idea of the Anthropocene.

It may never have been understood were it not for the Channeled Scablands, a strikingly similar landscape in eastern Washington state, and a bit of meticulous sleuthing by geologist David Marchant and his graduate student, Adam Lewis.

The slow - moving mass of earth is known as a frozen debris lobe, a term coined by geologists Ronald Daanen and Margaret Darrow.

The scientific name for the Neanderthal species — Homo neanderthalensis — was first suggested by geologist William King in 1864.

This outstanding lecture by geologist Richard Alley is IMHO considered must - viewing for anyone seeking to understand the role of carbon dioxide throughout Earth's history.

Areas marked by geologists as places where landslides have occurred historically are monitored.

We mentioned in Cutting Edge in the May / June 2008 issue that a fossil of a giraffe with a neck length perfectly intermediate between short - necked species and long - necked species had just been discovered by geologist Donald Prothero.

``... Over the last few years, the NRC has reassessed nuclear plants in the central and eastern United States for their vulnerability to earthquakes, using new seismic data developed by geologists.»

Your readers may want to know that the interpretation and analysis provided by geologist Tom Rockwell, and on which the story is based, is in our view both flawed and highly editorialised.

Because the temples incorporate pristine examples of local corals, Kirch and Sharp tried a method often used by geologists called uranium - series dating.

One of those groups is SkyTruth of Shepherdstown, W. Va., founded by geologist John Amos in 2001 to monitor the effects of human activity on the environment using remote - sensing and mapping technologies.

An intraplate fault like this generally produces earthquakes much less frequently than those at the boundaries of tectonic plates, like California's San Andreas Fault, and tends to be less well understood by geologists.

The shape and chemical composition of the mounds, called stromatolites, match those formed by modern bacterial communities living in shallow seawater, says a team led by geologist Allen Nutman of the University of

First noted by geologists more than 130 years ago, these deposits have long been recognized as strange, says Christine Siddoway, a geologist at Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

In 1998, a team led by geologist Birger Rasmussen of the University of Western Australia discovered microscopic drops of fluid oil preserved within mineral grains (similar to gas bubbles trapped in an ice cube) in rocks more than 3 billion years old in Australia's Pilbara region.

Microscopic globules of graphite in the rock, documented in 1999 by geologist Minik Rosing at the University of Copenhagen, are unusually low in a heavy carbon isotope that gets excluded when inorganic carbon is converted into living material.

Extended intervals of heavy rains created deep lakes in several parts of eastern Africa at times critical in human evolution, according to a team led by geologist Martin H. Trauth of Potsdam (Germany) University.

But one Wisconsin farmer has grown a uniquely science - themed crop; after being approached by geologists at the University of Wisconsin's Geology Museum in Madison, Angie Treinen modeled her maze after the state fossil, the long - extinct trilobite.

But a group led by geologist Rajdeep Dasgupta of Rice University in Texas put very small samples of peridotite under very large pressures and discovered mantle rock can and does liquefy, at least in small amounts, as deep as 150 miles (250 km) in the mantle.

To their surprise, it looks very different from predictions made by geologists over the past 30 years.

They found that Anthropocene strata are often thin — but also that they are globally distributed and may be clearly recognised by geologists.

In it, a team led by geologist Paul Dirks of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, described examining the fossils and the soil in which they were found.

But research by geologists at Indiana University Bloomington suggests that wasn't necessarily the case.

This is an area of silica based sand and mud deposition (called clastics or siliciclastics by geologists) with minor carbonate sediment.

This was a known hazard by geologists because in 2012 and 2013 large chunks of rock fell from the structure into the ocean, prompting a study of its stableness.

A layer of earth as seen by a geologist opens possibilities.

On a slight tangent, there was an excellent documentary called «Men of Rock» presented by the geologist Prof Ian Stewart, which profiled the work of Scottish scientist James Croll who originally came up with the theory of climatic change from orbital forcing.

He is the author of Heaven and Earth, Global Warming: The Missing Science Youtube link: Climate Change Explained by Geologist

So, when Clarke et al emphasize the importance of considering time scales that are considered to be long by politicians, but nearly instantaneous by geologists, that message falls on very receptive ears.

The controversy did provoke studies by geologists who would eventually show that the other great extinctions of the past, some even worse than the doom of the dinosaurs, had been caused by massive injections of greenhouse gases from volcanic outbursts — an all too relevant demonstration of the power of the gases.

Clyde Spencer has brought to my attention a remarkable essay published by geologist T.C. Chamberlin: The method of multiple working hypotheses, first published in 1897 and re-published in Science in 1965.

One group, led by geologist Michael Willis, of Cornell University, and another team led by glaciologist Ian Howat, of Ohio State University, report in two different journals on separate but related studies of Greenland's plumbing system: what happens to meltwater.