Sentences with phrase «fossil trees»

Finding a near - complete fossil tree is rare enough in itself, but this was even more extraordinary.

There's a lovely set of fossil tree rings from Chile, a 1229 - year - long period from sometime about 50,000 years ago, which also shows droughts lasting a century, with abrupt onsets and ends.

Stein, of Binghamton University in New York, had been called in to assess the new fossil tree in a quarry near the small town of Gilboa in New York state, an area already famous for its enigmatic «stump» fossils.

The scientists hope that identifying similar fossil tree - leaf sites will help the massive milldam restoration projects underway throughout the Northeast.

Studies of fossil trees on a ridge of Mount Achernar in the Transantarctic Mountains near the Ross Ice Shelf show that temperatures in the region must have been warmer than they are today.

1) Who said the included fossil trees were selected from a larger dataset?

More particularly, it is the story of the Poinars, George and Roberta, who have been bitten by the amber bugs, the insects that this fossil tree resin entrapped deep in the forests of the past from the Isle of Wight to New Zealand.

However, the fossil trees Shackleton's team discovered grew around 250 million years ago, when Antarctica was barely closer to the equator than it is today.

Climb this fabulously named colossus for gobsmacking views over the fossil trees of Dead Vlei, or watch the sun rise from the smaller but equally beautiful Dune 45.

A warm & relaxing welcome awaits you at the Fossil Tree, pe...

The fossil tree probably died a long time ago, and we don't know when that was.

However, because I know that the pattern of weather (and thus the master tree ring pattern) started 3,500 years ago, I know that the part of the fossil tree with the master tree ring pattern is 3,500 years old.

And as long as the selection criteria for live and fossil trees were consistently applied, there is no basis for a bias.

Although a previous estimate based on this approach yielded a MAT of approximately — 5 °C, additional information from oxygen isotopes in mosses at the site allowed us to calculate isotopic enrichment in the cellulose of fossil trees, thereby reducing assumptions and increasing the precision of our MAT estimates (see the Data Repository).