Sentences with phrase «for rock layers»

Snelling had hoped to gather the rocks to support the creationist belief that a global flood about 4,300 years ago was responsible for rock layers and fossil deposits around the world.

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The mile - wide canyon splits the island for 14 miles, offering spectacular panoramas of starkly layered rock.

We were looking at an organic rock layer just millimeters thick that had lots of carbon, because we figured somewhere with a lot of carbon was a good place to look for life.

Wallace's house, for instance, sits above the Barnett Shale Formation, a layer of hard black rock that holds the U.S.'s second - largest deposit of natural gas.

By listening for seismic waves, says Lin, a project co-leader, the 5 - year, $ 12 million Mariana Trench initiative aims to image in fine detail the warped rock layers in and around the trench, looking for clues as to what shapes them.

Geologists found the evidence for the Mesozoic's demise in a thin layer of iridium, a rare metal found on asteroids, isolated in the rock record at El Kef, Tunisia.

Only a small percentage of induced seismicity comes from fracking processes that inject liquid into the ground to break up rock layers to free oil and gas for recovery.

The researchers developed a method for measuring strength and finding weak spots in the lithosphere, the outer layers of earth that include the crust and the outer mantle — the molten rock lurking just under the surface that can well up and create volcanoes.

Rychert and her adviser, Karen Fischer, suggest that small amounts of water or pockets of melted rock in the uppermost asthenosphere account for the change in seismic behavior and the abrupt shift between the two layers.

This project will inject up to 300,000 tonnes of gas per year, depending on Cenovus's operations, into a 3.5 - kilometer - deep saline aquifer (a thin layer of brine - soaked porous rock) for storage.

There is a lot of interest in the northern hemisphere in proposals to capture carbon dioxide and get rid of it somewhere — on the sea bed or in deep rock layers, for instance.

A six - year study of seismic activity along the San Andreas Fault found that the 2004 Parkfield earthquake caused breakage and microcracking in shallow rock layers that changed the speed at which seismic waves moved through the area, making it more vulnerable to tremors for more than three years afterward.

Wastewater created during oil and gas production and disposed of by deep injection into underlying rock layers is the probable cause for a surge in earthquakes in southern Kansas since 2013, a new report in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America concludes.

In the early 1990s, geologists examined a rock section in China that bore the critical fossils of the P - T boundary interleaved with ashy volcanic layers suitable for isotopic dating.

To make a case for the impact, Melosh says, Abbott «should be finding layers of glassy droplets and fused rock in sea - core samples, the sorts of things we find at all other similar impact sites.»

They can survive for thousands, millions, perhaps billions of years in rock strata [rock or sediment layers] in the future.

Outer layers of lava and crystallized rock insulated deeper, superdense magma that remained hot for much longer than originally thought.

UNSW Australia study author and Ph.D. candidate Katarina David (left) preserves samples of moist rock collected by drilling a 300 - meter deep core through the layers of sandstone and claystone near Sydney, for later testing in the laboratory.

UNSW Australia researchers have used new water - tracing technology in the Sydney Basin for the first time to determine how groundwater moves in the different layers of rock below the surface.

In Arizona's Painted Desert, paleontologist Paul Olsen is drilling into multihued rock layers more than 200 million years old in hopes of confirming his controversial timeline for the late Triassic period.

It is expected to take another two months for BP to reach this depth, which is just above the oil reservoir, a subsurface pool of crude and natural gas sandwiched between layers of rock.

There are other forces at work, including a series of geologic faults in the delta and the rock layers beneath, but a U.S. Department of Interior report says oil and gas canals are ultimately responsible for 30 to 59 percent of coastal land loss.

The researchers hope to get a rough age range for the fossils by dating flowstones — calcite structures formed slowly by dripping water — in adjacent rock layers.

For decades the Chinese mined a phosphorus - rich layer of rock that winds through the hillsides of Guizhou Province and used it to make fertilizer for rice paddiFor decades the Chinese mined a phosphorus - rich layer of rock that winds through the hillsides of Guizhou Province and used it to make fertilizer for rice paddifor rice paddies.

Pterosaur remains scattered through multiple layers of the rocks suggest that the site was a pterosaur nesting site for many years.

In order to overcome the limitations of the dating method for the rocks covering the upper sedimentary layer, the research team led by Dr. Jin - Young Lee concurrently used radiocarbon dating and optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL), using such cross-validation of which raised the accuracy of tracing the past volcanic activities.

Until now, previous research used the dating method for rocks covering the upper sedimentary layer, in which such dating method with the relatively longer half - life period shows limitations in determining the time the basalt was formed about 10,000 years ago.

But until recently, scientists and environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath the earth would safely entomb the waste for millennia.

They often perform seismic studies, for example, which involve bouncing energy waves off buried layers of rock, to search for oil and gas or to understand the structure of the subsurface layers.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

20 February 2018 — Wastewater created during oil and gas production and disposed of by deep injection into underlying rock layers is the probable cause for a surge in earthquakes in southern Kansas since 2013, a new report in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America concludes.

For instance, the famous K - T event or K - T boundary, which marked the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, features a global layer of the element iridium in rock, the signature of a major asteroid impact.

Whether it comes from an underground spring or from an artesian well, spring water is the product of rain and snow filtered through layers of rock, where it picks up all sorts of valuable minerals that are good for you.

Once cool, add it to the ice cream maker and follow the instructions on your ice cream machine (ours instructs to layer the ice and the rock salt and let it go for 20 minutes).

Kunis previously toyed with the length a little over a year ago when she rocked a faux version to the Bad Moms premiere, and although she returned to her long layers following the event, it certainly isn't surprising that the crop looks just as good when she went for the real thing.

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I know for me, when I wear a romper, I am more comfortable wearing it with a second layer (maybe the extra layer gives me a boost of confidence to rock the romper!)

We'd rock it with a suit and a brightly - colored printed blouse, or for a layered look with a blazer and trousers (or a pencil skirt) made out of different fabrics.

I layered mine over a floral button down for a little added pattern but would also rock this duster with a classic white v - neck tee.

Lopez has rocked a lob before, but this time around she added long bangs and layers with feathery ends for added texture and movement.

But my bestie Brittany rocks them so frequently and so well that I came onto the idea that they made great outwear accents without adding much weight (re: a great layer for a hot climate).

You can rock these liners alone, or layer two shades together for a high intensity glam look.

While they're really comfy because of the way they cling to the skin, I tend not to wear them in winter because I need a bit of space for my under layer, the warm leggings, and that's why summer is the best time to rock a pair of jeggings.

She showed three different looks for wearing a scarf, two different ways to belt an outfit, how to rock flats, sandals, and wedges with spring dresses, and she layered her jewelry.

I personally don't dress much differently for Thanksgiving than I would for any other family dinner in the fall, but it's still fun to debut a new sweater or rock a preppy plaid layered combo since pictures are always bound to happen.

I'm layering under a tunic top, which I think is a fun and unexpected way to rock the cold shoulder trend for fall.

Maxi skirts are super versatile and can be worn with slits for a romantic beach look or paired with a cute sweater to rock the layering look.

Layered a few necklaces, brought up the bling factor and just rock n rolled for a date out!

This simplistic necklace can be layered with other personalized pieces for the ultimate glamourous effect, or rock a laid - back look by wearing it alone.