Sentences with phrase «geological effects of time»

Who would have thought it possible to show the geological effects of time simply by adapting a pile of terracotta bricks?

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And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»

«They have worked 16 times longer than planned, driven 20 times farther than planned, and, most important, found diverse geological records of the effects of water in ancient Martian environments,» he said.

She continued as a volunteer bander while working full time for the U.S. Geological Survey, where she assisted with field studies of the effect of mercury contamination on songbirds and waterbirds.

Her resulting sculptural photographs — which integrate Canadian driftwood and found lumber from abandoned homes in Buffalo, NY — fixes geological time and the effects of climate change onto fragile prints, bare and exposed.

Over geological times, volcanic activity continues to add CO2 to the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect, but the ice reduces the scrubbing action of the oceans, allowing CO2 to accumulate.

Once geological time scales are under discussion there are bound to be any number of effects beyond the fluid dynamics.

The IPCC overstates temperature feedbacks to such an extent that the sum of the high - end values that it has now, for the first time, quantified would cross the instability threshold in the Bode feedback equation and induce a runaway greenhouse effect that has not occurred even in geological times despite CO2 concentrations almost 20 times today's, and temperatures up to 7 ºC higher than today's.