Sentences with phrase «dust from erosion»

As the top layers of fresh snow disappear, old impurities, like dust from erosion or soot that blew in years before, begin to appear, darkening the surface.

Not exact matches

Yet the very small size of grains on the surface of Phobos and Deimos can not, according to the researchers, be solely explained as the consequence of erosion from bombardment by interplanetary dust.

Erosion carved these icy blue cliffs from sheets of ice just below Mars's layer of dust (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science / aao1619).

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Since then, the U.S. has developed strict soil conservation and erosion control measures under the auspices of the Soil Conservation Service to prevent events like the Dust Bowl from reoccurring.

Now accelerating wind erosion of soil and the resulting land abandonment are forcing people to migrate eastward, not unlike the U.S. westward migration from the southern Great Plains to California during the Dust Bowl years.

I can only list a few regular «goings on'that I KNOW affect sea level; I'm certain that there are others: Change in overall temperature of the oceans (a few millidegrees / mm), plate tectonics, slit from rivers, erosion of seashores, extraction of ground water which ultimately returns to the oceans, marine life and its products building up the ocean floors, melting land ice, undersea discharges of a variety of «stuff» from literally hundreds of thousands of sources, often at temperatures in the 1 - 2 thousand degree range, which we are only now beginning to notice, wind carrying dust from the land and dropping it on the ocean.