Sentences with phrase «cores of mud»

These clues include the earlier spring arrivals of migrating birds, earlier blooming of wildflowers and Washington DC's cherry trees, melting glaciers and icecaps, micro-fossils from cores of mud from the ocean floor, and bubbles of ancient air retrieved from cores of glacial ice.

For 2 months in 2013, the JOIDES Resolution, the ship for the International Ocean Discovery Program, drilled into the ocean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then dated.

The hydrates can be extracted by lowering a pipe into the ground and drawing up a core of mud and crystals.

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Who really cares what any of them think, one of their core beliefs is that men were made from mud, and women from a spare rib.

About 10 feet from the seafloor, a trigger core hits bottom and releases the main core, which drops the remainder of the way by gravity and buries itself in the mud.

The group gathers round as the core is opened; a pathetic green lump of mud drops to the deck.

Since the impact of a Jumbo Piston Core blasts apart the top few feet of mud, a smaller, gentler core is sent down to bring up an undisturbed first few fCore blasts apart the top few feet of mud, a smaller, gentler core is sent down to bring up an undisturbed first few fcore is sent down to bring up an undisturbed first few feet.

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Recently, he and his colleagues examined samples of a mud core extracted from between 860 metres and 1626 metres beneath the sea floor off the coast of Newfoundland.

Analysis of pollen in mud cores from the bed of a lake near the Andean fortress city of Ollantaytambo, Peru, reveals that, there at least, the agricultural revolution happened very quickly, some 2700 years ago.

Bierman and four colleagues — from UVM, Boston College, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Imperial College London — studied deep cores of ocean - bottom mud containing bits of bedrock that eroded off of the east side of Greenland.

The model also showed that some asteroids would be muddy all the way through, while others would develop cores of larger grains, with a great mud ocean on top of them.

After four days of coring — interrupted at one point by a blizzard — the team has 400 pounds of mud in 45 meters of tubing to ship to a Minnesota lab, where the next chapter in the mystery unfolds.

When Norwegian researchers brought up a mud core from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in 2010, they were orchestrating a family reunion.

In 1964, Paul Colinvaux began his life's work — trying to understand the ice - age climate of the Amazon through mud cores and the pollen found within.

The team also took core samples of mud from 1 to 2 meters below the seafloor and analyzed ancient pollen to determine the age of the samples.

When they took a sediment core from a lake originally created as part of a moat in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, they found centuries» worth of dirt, refuse and pollution particles, with the earliest mud layer dating to 1649.

Katrin Monecke of Wellesley College and her colleagues were able to identify a layer of light brown organic - rich mud within the core, deposited between 1740 and 1810, as a part of an underwater landslide, possibly unleashed by the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake.

Although Turner was intelligent and highly curious, his formidable intellect is contrasted in «Mr. Turner» with what Spall calls his «simian, beast - like» core, as if he had only just crawled out of the cold mud of the Thames.

Most of our time was spent cruising around the Bermuda Rise, a cluster of extinct underwater volcanos near Bermuda, pausing to take core samples of the mud whenever the conditions looked good.

At its core, it's thousands of sensors on each track that detect weather - elements such as rain, snow, mud, dirt, etc., that come into contact with the track.

Of course, these people conveniently ignored the countless excellent core gamer friendly games that were released for the Wii, but the damage was already done: the Wii U's name was mud among many circles before it even had a chance to make its mark.

Because the muds, called varves, seem to have a strong signal for the pulse of La Nina events, the team realized that cores taken from them could offer insights into the climate's past - and maybe its future - for this part of the world.

The organizing principles of climatology come from various threads, but I'd mention the oceanographic syntheses of Sverdrup and Stommel, the atmospheric syntheses of Charney and Lorenz, paleoclimatological studies from ice and mud core field work, and computational work starting with no less than John von Neumann.

In kid - friendly language, the authors incorporate the work of nearly forty - five scientists into easily - understood reads, ranging from Dr. Camille Parmesan's information on the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, to Dr. Lloyd Keigwin, who studies ancient ocean mud cores.

Unlike most texts that begin by explaining the most direct lives of evidence, like ice, mud, and tree cores examined by climate scientists, Cherry and Braasch start with more abstract clues.

The authors explain how scientists piece together the Earth's «climate history» from tree rings, mud cores, ice cores, and other sources; how this history compares with recent climate patterns; and how greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide - much of it human - made - are impacting climate.

Attractive photographs of the natural world, working scientists, easy to read graphs, and kids in action frame the many short essays, which examine a range of topics from CO2 capture in the rainforest to mud cores taken from the bottom of the ocean.

Studies range from documenting bloom dates of trees and flowers to extracting mud cores from the ocean floor.

As a professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University she's spent decades analyzing mud core samples drilled from lakes around the world to examine climate and fire going back thousands of years.

(When they brought up their core liners and laid them out on the deck, mud would splatter out of the tubes like pellets fired from a pellet gun.)

The drill core penetrated 514 m of silts and silty clays (glacial deposits) punctuated by muds and episodic 0.02 — 1.2 m thick terrigenous sands (interglacial deposits) 22.