Sentences with phrase «deep sediments»
Some bones in deeper sediments, they said, probably belonged to wild camels that people hunted for their meat.
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Scientists sampled a 650 - foot deep sediment core from roll - front uranium deposits at an unmined site at Wyoming's Smith Ranch Highlands.
Carbon from this type of clathrate is isotopically heavier (δ13C is − 29 to − 57 ‰) and is thought to have migrated upwards from deep sediments, where methane was formed by thermal decomposition of organic matter.
Even today, iron is used to treat waters polluted with fertilizer to remove phosphorus by sinking it as deep sediment.
Dr. Edwards took deep sediment core samples to further understand the geology of the region including the unusual seafloor mound where these samples were collected.
Geological studies that seek to collect deep sediment cores, or to drill into crystalline rock, require platforms that are stable in shifting seas.
Strand, Stuart E.; Benford, Gregory (2009) Ocean Sequestration of Crop Residue Carbon: Recycling Fossil Fuel Carbon Back to Deep Sediments Environmental Science & Technology 43 (4) 1000 - 07 doi: 10.1021 / es8015556
The time needed to destabilize large methane hydrate deposits in deep sediments is likely millennia [215].
The researchers extracted nine - meter (30 - foot) deep sediment cores that they then analyzed in a laboratory.
If you read the linked article (where it says «A scientific report» in this article), it states «Some bones in deeper sediments, they said, probably belonged to wild camels that people hunted for their meat.»
The deepest sediments were dated to 8.76 million years old.
The methane in gas hydrates must come either from methane - producing bacteria living in the permafrost, or from the breakdown of organic matter in deeper sediments.
Parkes has found microbes in deep sediments that grow best at precisely the pressure at which he found them.
Far into its darker recesses, I looked down through layers of time into the deeper sediments, back to the days when the hobbits shared their island with pygmy elephants and relatives of storks.
The time needed to destabilize large methane hydrate deposits in deep sediments is likely millennia [215].