Sentences with phrase «geological events record»

«Because certain geological events record everything, studying them helps to reconstruct the environmental past and to determine how human beings have influenced the environment.

Not exact matches

«Now we know that the geological rock record is unfaithful to these very large magnitude powerful events,» Carey says.

You'd love to actually find evidence of that event in the geological record, but on Earth the early record was destroyed by volcanic and tectonic processes.

Two speakers from the Geological Society conference «Past Carbon Isotopic Events and Future Ecologies» came to the SMC to discuss climate clues from the geological record and what they can tell us about present and future changes to thGeological Society conference «Past Carbon Isotopic Events and Future Ecologies» came to the SMC to discuss climate clues from the geological record and what they can tell us about present and future changes to thgeological record and what they can tell us about present and future changes to the climate.

This super-accelerated warming event, called the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), is generally considered the fastest global heat - up in the geological record — with the exception, of course, of the one we're cooking up right now.

Absolute Dating Absolute dating can be achieved through the use of historical records and through the analysis of biological and geological RELATIVE VS. ABSOLUTE DATING RELATIVE DATING A method of determining whether an event or object is younger or older than another event or object.

As a starting point, we explore what the traces of the Anthropocene will be in millions of years — carbon isotope changes, global warming, increased sedimentation, spikes in heavy metal concentrations, plastics and more — and then look at previous examples of similar events in the geological record.

Its «Future Earth» hall explains that «the planet is changing at a faster rate than anything that's been recorded through the geological record, other than a catastrophic event, like the meteor that took out dinosaurs,» said Martin.

The geological record is pretty clear that rapid climatic transitions cause extinction events.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

It should be self - evident that clouds have to provide a negative feedback, or there would be regular runaway «global warming» events in the geological record.

The extinction, and sudden change in climate, seen at the end of the Triassic period, is one of the top three «mass extinction events» seen in the geological record.