Sentences with phrase «from ancient rocks»

Evidence from ancient rocks suggests that asteroids slammed into our planet around 3.3 billion years ago.

Evidence from ancient rocks reveals that Earth's geodynamo has been up and running for at least 3.5 billion years.

Despite their violence, very little is known about silicic eruptions and most knowledge about them comes from ancient rock records, which lack details such as the timing, duration, source, and water depth of the events.

After decades of fieldwork and lab analysis on six continents, Quade — whose father and grandfather were geologists — seems to live, breathe, and eat insights from ancient rock.

And I'd have to say that if I have to save my life by winning an argument with oil men in a bar in Midland, Tex., on this topic, I would go in with some lumps of black mudstone from the ancient rock record, I'd go in with the established figures on our present input of carbon dioxide, and I'd say which bit of this observational science do you guys quarrel with, and why?

Not exact matches

Geologically, Cathedral Rock is carved from the Permian Schnebly Hill formation, a redbeds sandstone formed from coastal sand dunes near the shoreline of the ancient Pedregosa Sea.

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

There's no way to be sure how long peanut butter has been around, but it's probably safe to assume that, at some point, an ancient South American discovered that roasted peanuts were pretty tasty, especially when you mashed them with a rock and made a nice paste from them.

The historical fishermen's village is situated on a rock, safe from flooding, and — in ancient times — from pirates, too.

So geologists William McMahon and Neil Davies, both of the University of Cambridge, decided to look for when amounts of mud rock began increasing in 704 ancient river deposits from 3.5 billion to 300 million years ago.

SIGNS OF LIFE In rocks left over from ancient hydrothermal vents, these microscopic tubes of hematite, an ore of iron, may be remnants of early microbes.

The surviving fragments from these impactors would have littered the ancient surface of the Moon, slowly becoming mixed with native soil and rock.

Jackson's new tests of lead isotopes there confirm the rocks» ancient pedigree, which should help researchers better understand the raw materials from which our planet formed.

The rocks surrounding the preserved tissues didn't contain the carbon - rich compounds, further suggesting the chemical remnants stem from preserved soft tissues and not ancient sediments, the team reports online today in Nature.

If they can find the fossilized ripples in rocks hardened from ancient dunes, they could glean clues about the thicker atmosphere of early Mars.

The biggest caveat, says geologist Dawn Sumner of the University of California, Davis, is that the organic material observed in the study may not actually be ancient, coming instead from recent microorganisms living in the rocks.

Based on the age of nearby rocks, the scientists estimate that the Arktocara fossil comes from the late Oligocene epoch, around the time ancient whales diversified into two groups — baleen whales (mysticetes) and toothed whales (odontocetes).

The Venus figurines of women, some with exaggerated anatomical features, and ancient rock art, like the image from the Abri Castanet site in France that is supposedly of female genitalia.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

This information would not only help us understand the significance of rock art but is also of interest for reasons ranging from resource exploitation to ancient trade to contemporary conservation.

Though absent today, this ancient field is recorded in rocks retrieved from the moon's surface and in magnetized patches of crust spied by orbiting spacecraft.

Scientists had assumed that a series of ancient lakes once scattered from Kansas to North Dakota were largely alkaline, because of the large quantities of salt found in the area's sandy reddish rocks that were formed when the lake evaporated about 270 million years ago.

The specimens document the full evolutionary spectrum of feathers, from simple strands — previously inferred only from fuzzy halos seen in rocks — to complex structures adapted for flight and diving, which Wolfe's team believes came from ancient birds.

Hirayama found a nearly complete fossil of the oldest known sea turtle in a 110 - million - year - old rock collected from the site of an ancient Brazilian sea.

Their prediction is based on a new method of interpreting data from magnetic traces found in ancient rock samples.

While visiting France a few years back, geologist John Spray of the University of New Brunswick in Canada chiseled some rock samples from the ancient Rochechouart crater in west - central France.

The fossil was recovered from sedimentary rock strata that were deposited in an ancient lake roughly 55 million years ago, during the early part of the Eocene epoch.

Dr Alice Samson, co-author of the paper from the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History, explains: «Scientific analyses from the team have provided the first dates for rock art in the Caribbean — illustrating that these images are pre-Columbian made by artists exploring and experimenting deep underground.

Today fossilized coral makes its way into Lake Michigan from Little Traverse Bay, near the northern tip of the state's Lower Peninsula, where the ancient rock layer is exposed.

To put the pieces of the puzzle together, they combined three approaches previously not used together to reconstruct the ancient magma plumbing system by looking for chemical signatures in lava rock collected from flows on the surface.

But in April, Egyptologists John Coleman Darnell and Deborah Darnell, a husband - and - wife team from Yale University, reported finding an ancient bulletin board there, a collection of notes carved in the rock face by travelers over the millennia — including what may be one of the world's oldest historical documents.

Fossils of the ancient leviathan were unearthed from 480 - million - year - old rocks exposed on a hillside in southeastern Morocco.

Based on radiometric dating and geochemical isotope analysis, Czaja characterizes his fossils as having formed in this early Vaalbara supercontinent in an ancient deep seabed containing sulfate from continental rock.

Common in Precambrian Shield rocks — the oldest rocks on Earth — the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to that found near deep sea vents, suggesting these waters can support microbes living in isolation from the surface.

The team, which included other geochemists, palaeoecologists and geologists from UCL and the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds and Cambridge, as well as the Geological Survey of Namibia, analysed the chemical elemental composition of rock samples from the ancient seafloor in the Nama Group - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia animals.

Geophysicists have traced the process back to early in Earth's history by measuring magnetic fields in ancient rocks, and some have attempted to extrapolate from the present motion of the plates the likely shape of the next supercontinent.

But models of ancient atmospheres and tools for teasing out past CO2 levels from fossils and rocks all have limitations.

The researchers made this discovery by studying rocks left over from ancient volcanic eruptions in Central America.

Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.

The soil - like composition may indicate that these rocks were formed from ancient dunes rather than in water.

The oldest rocks so far identified on Earth are one - half billion years younger than the planet itself, so geologists have relied on certain crystals as micro-messengers from ancient times.

Julien Riel - Salvatore, from Université de Montréal, Canada, and Fabio Negrino, from Università di Genova, Italy analyzed archaeological finds that include ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains discovered in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini in Liguria, Italy.

In previous work, the research team analyzed samples of ancient rock collected from the Klamath Mountains of Northern California to find that the rocks and surrounding trees there held large amounts of nitrogen.

Himalayan salt is a type of rock salt mined from ancient salt beds in the Himalayan mountains.

Straight from the cursed and sandy grounds of the stately Mummula Manor, Mummula came for a full set of fun, sundown, surf and turf, garage rock, resurrecting tunes from the ancient pyramids and dunes bringing sounds of the «60's west coast and southern Ohio.

As I explained in my previous blog about the difference between the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish Vikings, we know the most about the Danes because of the Finland's underlying structure is a huge worn - down shield composed of ancient rock, mainly granite, dating from Precambrian time (from about 4 billion to

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Venturing off the paved routes near Canyon Point, a remote outpost best known as the spot where the Amangiri resort is nestled amidst ancient rock canyons reveals a reassuring amount of off - road capability from the new Discovery.

«In his sleep he could hear the horses stepping among the rocks and he could hear them drink from the shallow pools in the dark where the rocks lay smooth and rectilinear as the stones of ancient ruins and the water from their muzzles dripped and rang like water dripping in a well and in his sleep he dreamt of horses and the horses in his dream moved gravely among the tilted stones like horses come upon an antique site where some ordering of the world had failed and if anything had been written on the stones the weathers had taken it away again and the horses were wary and moved with great circumspection carrying in their blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horses once had been and would be again.