Sentences with phrase «dominated by flowering»

Jud is studying the change that began 140 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous period, when plant communities of ferns gave way to a world dominated by flowering plants.

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As Joan Didion described, Haight - Asbury's overall tone became dominated fairly early on by dealers, and by the sexual exploitation of young flower - child runaways.
The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.
If the Earth's temperature rises by 4 °C, flowering subalpine pastures could turn into desert scrubland dominated by sagebrush and other woody shrubs.
Just three to five minutes spent looking at views dominated by trees, flowers or water can begin to reduce anger, anxiety and pain and to induce relaxation, according to various studies of healthy people that measured physiological changes in blood pressure, muscle tension, or heart and brain electrical activity.
By comparing this plant's DNA with other plant genomes, researchers are getting a stronger sense of how flowering plants came to dominate Earth.
«When you look at forests around the world today, you don't see many forests dominated by evergreen flowering plants,» said the study's lead author, Benjamin Blonder.
Though blend of flowers but it is dominated by Rose, it's still nice and soothing.
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