Sentences with phrase «from lakebeds»

The worst drought on record has sapped water from lakebeds, turning Austin's sprawling Lake Travis into little more than a kiddie pool.

Ranging from the magnesium levels in microscopic seashells pulled from ocean sediment cores to pollen counts in layers of muck from lakebeds, the proxies delivered thousands of temperature readings over the period.

Back in the 1960s, Paul Colinvaux, a British - born ecologist, had collected a sediment core from a lakebed on St. Paul.

But as we transitioned from the lakebed's smooth, almost pavement - like texture, the squishy cadence withered away in the desert heat as we made our way onto the OHV area's rocky and rolly terrain.

For decades, fierce winds have dislodged microscopic particles from the lakebed, creating carcinogenic dust storms.

The paper created a Holocene - length record of extreme precipitation, as derived from lakebed sediments across the Northeast.

Mann08 considered four measures that Tiljander and her co-workers derived from their lakebed sediment drill cores.

For more discussion (but no clear - cut answers) on physical data that can be extracted from lakebed cores, see the PDF linked at Jarmo's comment, supra.

Not exact matches

Scherer removes a sediment core from an instrument that bores into the lakebed.

Well before an asteroid struck the planet some 66 million years ago, Earth was already in turmoil, a record from an ancient lakebed in northeastern China suggests.

These time - lapse photos from Jan. 9, 2014, capture a «sailing stone» (denoted by the red arrow) moving across the lakebed very quickly — 18 seconds in this case.

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.

Nearly 500 years after forming in their parent plant, lotus seeds from a Chinese lakebed have sprouted seedlings of their own, researchers say.

She says that dust storms in Salt Lake City have typically blown in from distant lakebeds like the Bonneville Salt Flats, about 170 kilometers away.

On the outskirts of the lakebed, the desert terrain is something very much out of «Mad Max: Fury Road,» and its paths and trails are what you'd expect if someone used toad skin as tarmac, ranging from soft and sandy to rutted with slight jumps.

Some of the main dungeon puzzles in the are new (e.g Link needing to remove obstacles in the Dark Palace for light to reach the bottom floor as this allows access to the boss), whilst some are recycled from previous titles (e.g Having to manipulate water currents to reach new places in the Swamp Palace, much like the Lakebed Temple).

The conversation will range from their collaborations in Houston, including Tex Hex and other activities along the Buffalo Bayou, and their projects on the dried out basins and lakebeds of the desiccated West.

In the image acquired on May 1, 2004, the reservoir's northwestern branch is isolated from the main reservoir; the shallow water upstream could not crest raised areas in the lakebed.

Lake Urmia is a hypersaline lake, and its desiccation will increase the frequency of salt storms generated from the exposed lakebed.

As the lake shrinks, wildlife habitat is disappearing and airborne dust from the exposed, dried lakebed threatens the health of the two million people in the surrounding area, including Salt Lake City, according to Wurtsbaugh and his co-authors.

Cristina Surdu of the University of Waterloo in Canada and colleagues report in The Cryosphere that there has been a 22 % fall in grounded ice — frozen from surface to lakebed — between 1991 and 2011.

The underlying issue is easy to grasp: from the 18th Century to the present, these lakebed sediments have been progressively contaminated by nearby farming and roadbuilding activities.