Sentences with phrase «drying lake in»

They triangulated on its position and, last week on New Year's Eve, dug up the 1.7 kilogram rock from a small crater in a dry lake in the Australian outback.

Sudden shifts in climate occurred at the end of the last ice age, according to American researchers studying sediments from the bed of a dry lake in New Mexico.

Hyundai engineers headed out to the Delamar Dry Lake in Nevada to create the «largest tire track image» ever recorded, according to the Guinness World Records.

In 1962, when Jean Tinguely constructed sculptures out of trash and took them out to Jean Dry Lake in the desert in Nevada, he chose the site because it resembled a nuclear test site used in the 1950s.

Randolph Sims helped American Land Artist Michael Heizer use land moving equipment for the first time on Nevada's Coyote Dry Lake in 1968.

Not exact matches

Among miscellaneous articles of food may be mentioned the ant, maguey - worm, and the fly of the Mexican lake, which were dried, ground, boiled, and eaten in the form of cakes.

Dried peas have been consumed since prehistoric times with fossilized remains being found at archeological sites in Swiss lake villages.

I always used half flour seasoned with garlic powder, salt, pepper, and dried basil, with half Italian seasoned bread crumbs for the breading, but I'm trying to do keto, so I'll give this a try We usually only buy fish online, from the Ojibwe tribe of Indians, in Red Lake, Minnesota.

'' With the population growth in Nigeria and the drying up of the Lake Chad, we have to move faster and adapt to the impacts of climate change through technological solutions,» the President said.

He also noted the «giant step» towards addressing climate change taken in the Paris accord last December, noting the adverse effects that climate change has already manifested in the drying up Lake Chad, threatening the livelihood of some 30 million inhabitants of the Lake Chad Basin, spread across Cameroun, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.

He recalled that a research conducted by a professor in a London university and published over three decades ago had predicted that unless one or some of the rivers from the Central African region are diverted to empty into the Lake Chad basin, the river would dry up.

Laced with dry humor, Zemsky referenced Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games in one sketch.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

Former town board member Liz Simonson, member of the group called Save Cooper Lake, that presented the petition to the town board, told of her Lake Hill well running dry in 2012.

But even as the area recovers, the level of water in Lake Ontario remains high, and recovery efforts along some parts of the shore have to wait for drier weather — and a federal disaster declaration that local and state officials have requested to unlock additional aid.

While the temperatures will be cold and the lakes warm, the amount of snow will be limited by the direction of the wind and relatively dry air in the upper atmosphere.

Large boulders like this one wander across the flat clay surface of Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, leaving long furrows but no hint of what propelled them.

The presence of halos in rocks formed long after the lake dried out indicates that groundwater was still flowing within the rocks more recently than previously known.

«This work adds a plausible hypothesis to explain the way in which liquid water could have formed on early Mars, in a manner similar to the seasonal melting that produces the streams and lakes we observe during our field work in the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys,» Head said.

«We see this in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, where seasonal temperature variation is sufficient to form and sustain lakes even though mean annual temperature is well below freezing,» Palumbo said.

Previous modelling studies estimated that the Bodélé depression in Chad, which formed when the largest lake in Africa dried out about 1000 years ago, is responsible for about 56 per cent of the dust from Africa reaching the Amazon, amounting to millions of tonnes per year.

Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completLake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completlake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completely.

Jill Mikucki of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and her team analysed the water seeping out from a sub-glacial lake beneath the Taylor glacier in the McMurdo dry valleys.

WINDBLOWN dust from a dried - out African lake that was once the size of California is nourishing rainforests in the Amazon and algae in the Atlantic.

Shallow lakes in northern Canada are drying up due to a lack of snow, yet another Arctic impact of climate change

Decades of data collected as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program have turned up some puzzles, such as surprising chemical gradients in lake waters that didn't quite make sense.

The people in this small fishing village along the shore of Lake Tanganyika rely heavily on the small sardines from the lake for their own food and also probably sell them dried in a nearby marLake Tanganyika rely heavily on the small sardines from the lake for their own food and also probably sell them dried in a nearby marlake for their own food and also probably sell them dried in a nearby market.

The shores of Lake Turkana, in Kenya, are dry and inhospitable, with grasses as the dominant plant type.

And it gave us an opportunity to talk about how the planet changes and evolves and [how] what is the driest place on Earth today hasn't always been the driest place on Earth and that those high desert lakes were remnants of when the sea is used to be there, marine fossils and coral in that high desert.

We started in the Aleutian islands, [the] next year it was Vietnam, the Tuamotu with big archipelago of atolls in the South Pacific, the Altiplano of South America which is the driest place on Earth, and which seem [s] kind of a futile place to take kayaks but there are big desert lakes there that [and] we drag [ged] the kayaks from one to the next.

The Al Wusta site in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert is a dry, arid place today, but it sat on the lush banks of a lake 88,000 years ago.

It derives from a different type of bacterium, one living in dry salt lakes in the Sahara Desert.

Just beyond Dryden we could see the Rogers Dry Lake Bed, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 in honor of all the history - making flights that took off and landed there.

Okin, a wind erosion expert, tells me he got caught in one such storm just the other day on a dry lake bed.

But after dry winters with low snowpack, lake levels drop and toad eggs can find themselves in as little as 10 cm of water.

Researchers in the US have found evidence from lake sediments that the driest conditions for 7000 years hit the region around AD 900.

Although scientists can learn about past climate by examining ancient lake sediments, in the Sahara the lakes dried up long ago and their sediments have blown away.

In March 2003, for instance, seismometers detected a disturbance coming from near Lop Nor, a dried - up lake in western China that the Chinese government, which signed but hasn't ratified the test ban treaty, has used for nuclear testIn March 2003, for instance, seismometers detected a disturbance coming from near Lop Nor, a dried - up lake in western China that the Chinese government, which signed but hasn't ratified the test ban treaty, has used for nuclear testin western China that the Chinese government, which signed but hasn't ratified the test ban treaty, has used for nuclear tests.

Core samples from deeper in the Lake Towuti sediment will show whether this drying evident during the last ice age also happened in previous ice ages.

We would just roast out here all day in the 110 - degree desert heat, staring across the expanse of dried - up lake bed without seeing any sign of the «dust devils» (video)-- mini-tornadoes — that the scientists and arrays of instruments stood ready to record.

When lakes dry up, the sediment in the newly exposed soil can release carbon dioxide.

Earlier this year scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., declared that Lake Mead could become dry by 2021 if the climate changes as expected and future water use is not curtailed.

Photographer Nick Brandt spent months on dry lake beds and dusty plains, waiting to capture images of African wildlife in what he calls their «state of being».

The 4 - square - meter area of the bone bed already excavated has yielded 10 skulls and hundreds of remains, suggesting that the creatures became concentrated in one area and then died when the lake they inhabited dried up, the researchers say.

The tents and outbuildings of a remote field camp on the shores of Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys, in the shadow of Taylor Glacier, provide a sense of scale often difficult to convey in photos of Antarctica, where distances are vast and typical human landmarks such as power lines are absent.

Hayes and his team measured the elevation of lakes filled with liquid as well as those that are now dry, and found that lakes exist hundreds of meters above sea level, and that within a watershed, the floors of the empty lakes are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity.

The list of places where NASA's next Mars rover, due to launch in 2020, could land has been narrowed down to three: Jezero crater, the dry remains of an ancient lake; Northeast Syrtis, which used to host hot springs; and the Columbia Hills, previously explored by NASA's Spirit rover.

Drought was a suspect — the traditionally damp northern Great Lakes region was in the midst of a dry spell.

Previously called a «water tower» because it supplied water to the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria, the forest region has dried up; in 2009 the rainy season — from August to November — saw no rain, and since then precipitation has been modest.

Ever since Lake Lahontan dried up thousands of years ago, the Black Rock Desert in Nevada has been a forbidding habitat.