Sentences with phrase «from microscopic plants»
Cores taken from under the open ocean are often stained green from microscopic plants called diatoms that settle to the seafloor after dying, but this core contained none.
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Specifically, after the analysis involving microscopic techniques and virtual models developed by the UA researcher, carious lesions caused by carbohydrates, present in plants, were found in the dental remains discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits site in Los Angeles, California, described by Alejandro Romero as «one of the most paradigmatic sites to study fossil mammals from the Pleistocene in North America.»
Biological oceanographer Kendra Daly of the University of South Florida heard a talk by Delaney and excitedly told him that his concept would finally allow researchers to study the ephemeral changes that were so difficult to capture from a ship: a storm churning up the waters below, for instance, or the springtime bloom of microscopic marine plants.
The team used stable isotope labels to trace plant litter - derived carbon and nitrogen as the litter decomposed and formed soil, specifically the fraction of soil called organic matter, which comes from plant inputs and microscopic animals.
«The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past.»
The microscopic particles sifting from freeways and power plants don't just harm your heart and lungs.
The archaeologists analysed 16 samples of microscopic plant remains from ten different time periods found during excavations during 2014 led by the University of São Paulo in South West Amazonia.
And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog, acid rain, lung - damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.
«The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past,» adds co-chief scientist Gerald Dickens.
Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).
Diatomaceous earth, sometimes referred to as «DE,» is a natural substance that is actually created from the remains of diatoms, microscopic water plants that are like algae.
These giants of the ocean swim with open mouth to absorb the nutritious soup made up from microscopic water plants, plankton, egg fish and even tiny fish.
It's full of millions of items, ranging from massive skeletons to microscopic plants, each needing to be appropriately catalogued and stored for reference by researchers.
From giant fossils to microscopic plants, get a behind - the - scenes look at the incredible archives of the Smithsonian.
Nepomuceno's works are chromatically, culturally and metaphorically rich, suggesting animals, plants, the human body and landscapes ranging from the microscopic to the macroscopic.
Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being.
Often realised in carnival - bright colours, these works are chromatically, culturally and metaphorically rich, suggesting animals, plants, the human body and landscape ranging from the microscopic to the macrocosmic.
Scientists estimate that 100 to 10,000 species — from microscopic organisms to large plants and animals — go extinct each year.
The first place that carbon moves from the atmosphere into the ocean is at its sun - warmed surface, where microscopic floating plants called phytoplankton consume carbon dioxide for energy (just like grass and trees).
Blooms can come from algae that range from microscopic single - celled organisms to macroscopic seaweed, and cause harm through the production of toxins or by accumulation of the plants.
The scientists estimated that the swarm consumed up to 74 percent of microscopic carbon - containing plants from the surface water per day, and their sinking fecal pellets transported up to 4,000 tons of carbon a day to deep water.