Sentences with phrase «formed over millions of years»

Belize boasts a remarkable cave system that offers the traveler an opportunity to view these natural wonders formed over millions of years by the ebb and flow of water over limestone.

Colin Dundas at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, and his colleagues examined pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and found eight patches of ice, which had formed over millions of years.

Places like the Grand Canyon also receive a much simpler explanation than the theory (which is rapidly losing favor) that the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years by a small trickle of water.

Forty percent of Americans hold that God «guided» evolution from simpler to more complex life forms over millions of years.

The black and white inks that swirl on the surfaces create self - similar, fluid patterns reflecting the structure of molecular bonds and the slow evolution of crystals, which form over millions of years.».

Not exact matches

Parton told CNBC that she has been dreaming of having her own hotel for years, and the opening of the DreamMore resort on Monday forms part of the group's plans, announced in 2013, to invest $ 300 million in the complex over the next 10 years.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

... no evidence it was, yet there it is... when you look at it, it in fact was not designed, but it was laid down over millions of years... a sedimentary rock... the rock was not designed... maybe the PROCESSES that made the rock were desined... not really... gravity makes water flow into the lowest ares and when the water moves more slowly, sediment is dropped, forming rock... Still not seeing a designer... what about water... simple chmistry there, designed?

«If the earth formed over four billion years ago, all helium should have escaped from zircons, yet the crystals are loaded with this element» «The atmosphere should be full of helium atoms, the byproducts of millions of years of radioisotope decay, but it isn't.»

Science has also proven that, rather than being «created» fully - formed, humans are the product of an ongoing process of evolution that took place over millions of years.

As these life forms established themselves over some hundreds of millions of years, the luxuriant foliage formed layer after layer of organic matter, which was then buried in the crust of the earth to become fossil formations with enormous amounts of stored energy.

Humans were not created instantaneously from dust and breath, but evolved over millions of years from simpler life forms.

Can even one single strand of protein form itself over a course of millions of years?

It's obvious that he effectively has nowhere else to go.His wages alone preclude any interest from another Club.Factor in a transfer fee and uninspiring form and Arsenal are alone in a desire to have him.Wenger can't bear the thought of a player who originally cost over 40 million pounds having no sell - on value.However this is a fact.Extend Ozil's contract for another wasteful two years paying him a wage he doesn't deserve and he'll be off to Turkey once he feels that he's banked enough # 300k weekly wage packets.Any way you look at it Arsenal won't get their money's worth!As unappetising as it might be Arsenal should play «hard - ball» and just let him see out the remainder of his contract.

Formed over 45 million years ago, Baltic amber is an organic substance, a «fossil resin» produced by pine trees which grew in Northern Europe - from southern regions of the present day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea.

But when there are still millions of people in this country living in poverty, and when the age of austerity means we must focus on the real priorities can we honestly say it's right for people earning over # 50,000 a year to get state benefits in the form of tax credits?

We will go further to say that even if the EC is given ten years to go through every single one of the 14 million and over registration forms since 2012, it will not be able to come out with any credible list of those who registered using NHIS cards.

That is the conclusion of The Times this morning, which calculates that of the # 52 million received into party coffers over the last three years, «a growing proportion» has come in the form of individual donations of # 50,000.

Over the past 17 million years or so, successive eruptions have flooded lava over wide stretches of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho, forming a string of comparatively flat calderas linked like beads, as the North American plate moves across the stationary hotsOver the past 17 million years or so, successive eruptions have flooded lava over wide stretches of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho, forming a string of comparatively flat calderas linked like beads, as the North American plate moves across the stationary hotsover wide stretches of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho, forming a string of comparatively flat calderas linked like beads, as the North American plate moves across the stationary hotspot.

Because oxygen is critical to many forms of life and geochemical processes, numerous models and indirect proxies for the oxygen content in the atmosphere have been developed over the years, but there was no consensus on whether oxygen concentrations were rising, falling or flat during the past million years (and before fossil fuel burning).

Earth formed from a series of smaller planetesimals that crashed together over the course of 30 million to 40 million years.

It was already suspected that the large volume of magma ejected during the supervolcanic eruption had slowly accumulated over the last few millions of years in the form of consequently emplaced intrusions.

Up until now, there has been a heavy focus on the role of animal protein and cooking in the development of the human brain over the last 2 million years, and the importance of carbohydrate, particular in form of starch - rich plant foods, has been largely overlooked.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

This form of photosynthesis, known as crassulacean acid metabolism or CAM, has evolved over millions of years, building water - saving characteristics in plants such as Kalanchoë, orchid and pineapple.

That was the unequivocal evidence for the hypotheses postulated by Charles Lyell in his «Principles of Geology»: mountains such as the Andes had not been formed in one colossal upheaval, but grew, barely perceptibly, over the course of millions of years, as the result of countless small quakes, to which Darwin had just been a witness.

As many as 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia among adults over 60 years of age.

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

These turquoise waters mark the top of the Bahama Banks — underwater columns of coral reef limestone more than 4500 metres tall that have formed over the past 100 million years.

When researchers compared the two sets of canyons using satellite imagery, they found that the windswept canyons were longer, smoother, and had grown 10 times faster than the still canyons over the millions of years since the rock first formed, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.

They simulated two streams of interstellar gas coming together to form a cloud that, over a few million years, collapsed under its own gravity to make a cluster of stars.

Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, affects nearly 36 million people worldwide, and this number is set to double over the next 20 years.

Over thousands of years, the calcium phosphate in an animal's skeleton combines with other minerals in the ground, forming fossils that can survive for hundreds of millions of years.

Over a period of at least 1 million years, these spaces were filled by repeated flows of minerals carried by water flowing through the cave, similar to the way that stalactites and stalagmites are formed by the dripping of water.

«There are over 5 million housing units in this ecosystem that need some form of fire protection, and wildfire risk and housing demand are only expected to increase in the next 50 years.»

Over millions of years the ongoing turbulence stirs the fields together like cream in coffee, forming one giant field that is perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy.

The tilt was caused by the gigantic Tharsis volcanic dome, which first started to form over 3.7 billion years ago at a latitude of around 20 ° N. Volcanic activity continued for several hundred million years, forming a plateau exceeding 5,000 km in diameter, with a thickness of about 12 km and a mass of a billion billion tons (1 / 70th the mass of the Moon).

During the breakup of Rodinia, tens of thousands of kilometres of mid-ocean ridge were formed over tens of millions of years.

Sage also knew that dust swirling that near the star would absorb so much heat over those millions of years that the dust would vaporize into the vacuum of space, so no planet would form, especially a Jupiter - size planet.15

«It's impossible not to be excited to reach remote sites via helicopter and icebreaker to look for dinosaurs and other life forms from over 66 million years ago,» said Julia Clarke, a paleontologist at the UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, in the team's press release detailing the expedition.

Under the most accepted scenario, planets form over tens of millions of years from the slow accretion of dust, rocks, and gas.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

«Though very rarefied by Earth standards, these interstellar clouds are the sites of complex chemical reactions that occur over hundreds - of - thousands or millions of years,» said Jan M. Hollis of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these cloover hundreds - of - thousands or millions of years,» said Jan M. Hollis of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these cloOver time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these clouds.

Astronomers believe that the gas giants in our solar system formed by building up a large core over a few million years and then pulling in a huge amount of hydrogen and other gases to form an atmosphere.

Astronomers believe that planets form like snowballs over millions of years, as small dust grains clump together to form larger bodies.

Some researchers assume that a close system evolves into a wide system over millions of years due to dynamical interactions, but others guess that turbulence in a gas cloud fragments the cloud into smaller ones and stars are formed in each small cloud.

This ancient sea salt has been alchemized over millions of years into a special energized crystalline form in a process analogous to how coal gradually becomes a diamond.

Humans evolved eating these alkaline (base - forming) diets over millions of years.

Over the past 40 years, the consumption of junk food, mostly in the form of refined carbohydrates, has increased dramatically, while fat and protein intake has remained almost the same.3 This dietary change alone has significantly reduced aerobic function in millions of people, and increased their risk for chronic illness.

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