Sentences with phrase «discovered by geologists»

The ATM, also called «Xibalba» in Mayan and «The Cave of the Crystal maiden» was discovered by geologists and after being catalogued by archaeologists was open to the public in the late 1990s.

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By: Nadine James 13th April 2018 While there is no doubt that conglomerate gold has been discovered in the Pilbara, the broader understanding of this style of gold mineralisation in the Pilbara remains incomplete, and therefore any comparisons with the Witwatersrand (Wits) Basin are premature, states SRK Consulting geologist... →

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Discovered by consulting geologist Bob Ganis, who obtained his PhD from the University of Leicester, and Mike Meyer of the Carnegie Institute of Science, it has now been described in a paper published in the journal Palaios by them and co-authors Professor Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester, Jacalyn Wittmer of the State University of New York, Geneseo and Kenneth de Baets of Geozentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen Germany.

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.

By examining rock formations, geologists had discovered that the world was far more ancient than the biblically derived figure of about six thousand years.

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.

The specimen was discovered in 2004 by seven - year - old Diego Suarez on a hike with his parents (who happened to be geologists), leading to its moniker of Chilesaurus diegosuarezi.

Recruited by Ventress with her coterie of female specialists — paramedic Anya Thorensen (Gina Rodriguez), physicist Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson) and geologist Cass Sheppard (Tuva Novotny)-- to discover the cause and nature of The Shimmer, Lena decides to embark on the mission to discover what happened to Kane, but will it be a suicide mission?

Due largely to the discovery of stalactites in the underwater caves found in the Belize Barrier Reef, geologists have discovered that the Belize Barrier Reef was not created by volcanic activity (as many reefs are) but instead by the most recent glacial period instead.

In the book, two geologists discover a potential route into the centre of the Earth, and prepare for their decent by taking «lessons in looking down».

A team of geologists led by Henrik Svensen of the University of Oslo discovered hydrothermal vent complexes — thousands of them — dating back to the Paleocene - Eocene boundary.