Sentences with phrase «decaying organic matter known»
The settings of these two blazes couldn't have been more different, but scientists suspect the two had something important in common: plenty of decaying organic matter known as peat.
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Known more accurately as soil organic carbon, it is part of soil organic matter, which is made up of decaying plant and animal matter, and essential elements for good plant growth such as calcium, phosphorous, and nitrogen.
Schweitzer knew this amounted to paleontological heresy: According to the textbooks, when fossils form, all but the hardiest organic matter decays, leaving a mix of leftover minerals plus new ones that have leached in and taken the bone's shape.
Known as the «sulfur pearl of Namibia,» this anaerobic species digests organic matter under low - oxygen (or no - oxygen) conditions that are caused by high rates of phytoplankton growth in the Benguela upwelling zone, and the subsequent decay of large masses of dead phytoplankton that have fallen to the seafloor.