Sentences with phrase «fossil bed of»

A unique visitor experience is the Victoria Fossil Cave with its beautiful formations and silt fossil bed of amazing diversity.

Enigmatic anatomy Frogs are plentiful in today's China but are rare in the fossil beds of Liaoning.

An exquisitely complete feathered dinosaur has emerged from the famed fossil beds of northeastern China's Liaoning Province.

Her new paintings — groupings of hammerhead sharks, fronds, cell phones, toucans, plantains — bring something of Basquiat's mind - boggling border - to - border busyness, combined with Bernhardt's spray - painted, psychedelic phosphorescent fields that transform into fossil beds of modern life.

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They usually consist of fossil trees that were buried upright, and which often traverse multiple layers of strata such as sandstone, limestone, shale, and even coal beds.

Mar. 13, 2013 — Canada's 505 million year - old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery - this time with the unearthing of a strange spaghetti - shaped creature.

Mar. 13, 2013 — Canada's 505 million year - old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery — this time with the unearthing of a strange spaghetti - shaped creature.

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.

Baltic amber is 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.

They find the fossil bed rich with dozens of species of marine invertebrates, such as crabs, snails, clams, sea urchins, large flat oysters and ammonites, as well as fish teeth and scales.

It was March 29, 1932, midway through the Third East African Archaeological Expedition, and it had rained so long and so hard that it took an hour to drive the four miles from the campsite in Kanjera, near the shore of Lake Victoria, to the Kanam West fossil beds.

Despite many other species of marine worms on the fossil bed, only Cricocosmia jinningensis and Mafangscolex sinensi were found to be acting as hosts.

For over a decade, the University of Alaska Museum has been expanding its estimate of the richness and extent of Mesozoic vertebrate fossil beds and trackways in arctic Alaska.

«Those Scottish fossil beds have four or five known genera of ray - finned fish in them.

On nearby public land, these same beds have yielded scores of fossils of dinosaurs, but no paleontologists are known to have scoured this section of rangeland, settled in the late 1800s.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

Deep beneath an ash bed in an area of northwest China famed for its mud - filled «dinosaur death pits» that snared all sorts of prehistoric creatures, researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl fossil ever discovered.

Fossils unearthed from a 30 - to 40 - centimeter - thick bone bed in southern Portugal suggest the creature was more than 2 meters long, weighed as much as 100 kilograms, and had a broad flat head the size and shape of a toilet seat.

Geology is the best indicator of promising fossil beds, so before a development project gets under way, paleontologists assess the location.

The new data, based on the analysis of fossils and specimens from 80 fossil beds and locations spanning 300 million years, imply an early start to the human - dominated era.

Discoveries in more recent years of more complete skeletons in rare fossil beds that preserve exceptional details first challenged this idea about 10 years ago.

The red was rust — an oxidized form of iron pyrite, which commonly appears on local Precambrian fossil beds.

He and his research assistant were scouting for new fossil sites out on a rocky promontory called Mistaken Point, where a series of well - known fossil beds overlook the North Atlantic.

Dinosaurs make up one - third of all vertebrate genera found in the fossil beds, and all three major dinosaur groups had already appeared — not bad for a time when the beasts were thought to be rare.

A new 53 million - year - old insect fossil called a scorpionfly discovered at B.C.'s McAbee fossil bed site bears a striking resemblance to fossils of the same age from Pacific - coastal Russia, giving further evidence of an ancient Canada - Russia connection.

Arthropods (evolution and phylogeny) Bear Gulch, Heath Sahle Formation, Montana Burgess Shale Cambrian Explosion (metazoa, balaterans) Chengjiang Doushantuo Formation Eurypterids Exceptional Fossil Preservation Fossil Record Fossilization House Range of Utah Insects Jawless Fish Kaili Biota Krukowski Quarry Lebanon Lithographic Limestone McAbee Fossil Beds Paleobiology: Fossils through Time Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics Pioche Formation Stromatolites Taxonomy and Systematics Trilobites Vendian Fossils

A 53 million - year - old insect fossil discovered at B.C.'s McAbee fossil bed site resemblance to fossils of the same age from Pacific - coastal Russia.

Typically, the Vendian or Ediacaran fossils are preserved as thin impressions on bedding surfaces of fine to medium - grained sedimentary rocks.

The fossil bed found in Brazil contained hundreds of bones from roughly 50 individual pterosaurs, including partial skulls and jawbones, according to the study.

To that end, with the permission of the National Museums of Kenya, she gave them a fragment of a 4 - million - year - old fossil from a buffalo - like animal recovered in the excavation of a bone bed at Allia Bay, on the east side of Lake Turkana.

OH 83: A new early modern human fossil cranium from the Ndutu Beds of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

DE is, as mentioned, a white powder naturally occurring from the fossils of diatoms (a type of algae found in river bed and lake beds).

The NPS site recently featured a presentation about central Oregon's John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and another commemorating the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, Virginia — America's first English colony.

You may even spot dinosaur fossil beds, though a trip to the museum will guarantee an insight into the fascinating history of the Gobi desert.

Colorado Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Colorado National Monument Dinosaur National Monument Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Hovenweep National Monument Mesa Verde National Park Rocky Mountain National Park

While it's almost two and half hours away from Bend, the area included in the Sheep Rock Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was fascinating to explore.

We also got to see some of the amazing rock formations of the Sheep Rock Unit of John Day Fossil beds and go to the visitor center there to see the fossils and watch the video.

On closer inspection, the splotches and strokes seem the result of pours that have pooled and evaporated, leaving outlines of what look like fossil beds, zoological forms, crystals, or coral.

In order to become one with nature, they find their last place to stay in a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their labor.

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

Given evolution over the past 500 million years when virtually all modern emerged and radiated largely occurred while the planet had no polar ice caps and atmospheric CO2 up to ten times current level, and the planet was green from pole to pole, and life did so well it was able to sequester huge amounts of energy in fossil fuel beds.

Produced from fossil fuels, deforestation and the conversion of marshes and seagrass beds, along with mangrove forests, the gases have been increasing from human activities for the last century.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

US researchers report in the journal Nature that they collected fossil pollens from 642 ponds and lake beds across Europe and North America, to provide a record of local temperature shifts in the last 11,700 years, to conclude that — without global warming as a consequence of profligate human use of fossil fuels — the world ought to be in a cool phase.

The replacements of wind, solar, nuclear, etc with storage technology will phase out fossil fuels, which is heading toward its death - bed anyways.