Sentences with phrase «geological changes»

The familiar music of natural geological change is about to be disrupted by a noisy interruption in the form of human intervention.

The dramatic image, which draws a link between the rock of the mountain and the bones that constitute the human skeleton, evokes simultaneously a sense of slow geological change (and disaster) as well as emotional or psychological breakdowns.

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The approach may reveal recent geological changes, and will allow the probe to analyse dust and gas thrown up by the moon's geysers.

The findings will help researchers disentangle how much of Central Asia's de-greening occurred in response to localized geological changes versus global shifts happening during the Neogene.

Through learning to read traces of the cataclysmic and remorseless geological changes that formed the planet, they uncovered a story that enabled them to compute the ages of the Earth, the solar system, our galaxy and the universe.

We asked a geologist to investigate whether North Korea's nuclear tests could trigger geological changes.

They believe in the 19th century uniformitarian paradigm of Charles Lyell, where geological change is slow and steady and all is right with the world.

Although many of the theories of catastrophic geological change were argued on fully scientific grounds, by the end of the nineteenth century scientists had come to lump all such theories with religious dogmatism.

The National Science Foundation has funded major field campaigns to West Antarctica, including POLENET, which place Global Positioning System (GPS) stations in the area to measure geological changes.

But, to see them on one's own doorstep brings home the sheer scale of these planetary changes — and the realisation that geological change does not recognise national boundaries.»

The resulting surface stability slowed geological change, seemingly stalling evolution for a billion years, until the planet was cool enough for tectonic activity to shift up a gear.

The research also delineates the many changes that occurred along each of the ape lineages as they became separated from each other through migration, geological change and climate events.

Analysis of great ape genetic diversity is likely to reveal ways that natural selection, population growth and collapse, geographic isolation and migration, climate and geological changes, and other factors shaped primate evolution.

«Salmon sex linked to geological change: Fish effects on stream bed have long - term consequences.»

Her algorithms allowed researchers to view any geological changes that had taken place in the time interval between imaging surveys of the Voyager and the Galileo missions.

It's an incredible formation created by the geological changes that took place millions of years ago.

However, the geological changes wrought by the killer asteroid remains in the form of sinkholes, or cenotes, that formed around the impact crater.

Of the theories discussed above for the geological changes, only the theory of solar variability could carry over to explain climatic changes.

At each step in the past 50 million years there is a geological change that would reduce the amount of energy transferred to the atmosphere from the surface.

With the planet's temperatures rising, we can expect to see some of these geological changes in our lifetimes — especially when it comes to low - lying areas like Florida.

This concerns climate and geological change, as their ancestors, and those who didn't make it, show us the details of the climate changes that concern us very deeply at this moment in time.

The Oasis nature channel is presenting a series of programs entitled Extinctions, about creatures threatened with extinction due to geological changes, including global warming.