Sentences with phrase «ice age information»

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The observed activity of 288P also reveals information about its past, notes Agarwal: «Surface ice can not survive in the asteroid belt for the age of the Solar System but can be protected for billions of years by a refractory dust mantle, only a few metres thick.»

To get to the bottom of things, he mapped the ages and locations of 1,323 woolly mammoth remains and 576 archaeological sites, and he merged them with data from plant and pollen records, and climate change information from ice cores in Greenland.

An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep - sea temperature and ice - volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about.

«Crucial new information about how the ice ages came about.»

In that sense, the observed decoupling of temperature and ice - volume changes provides crucial new information for our understanding of how the ice ages developed.

Taken one step further, Leckey of course knows, that in our age of ever widening information availability, your tubs of ice cream and slabs of bacon could one day influence your health insurance rates and that one bottle too many of premium vodka in the Family Hub could jeopardize your college application or nix the promotion that you so desperately deserve.

It's thin floating ice there — if you read just a bit (try some of these): http://scholar.google.com/scholar?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=age+arctic+sea+ice you'll find plenty of information on the age of that ice is documented.

The LGM [again this is the peak of the last ice age] gives us some information on how the climate responds to reduced CO2 in a cooler world, and that can help evaluate models used to project the future.

To sum up, the ice ages give us information about how CO2 responds to temperature increases but not, unfortunately, information about how much warming CO2 causes.

Hi Heiko, I added that information, as well as the correct figure for the age of Antarctica's ice cover.

The rise of human civilisation coincided with the end of the last Ice Age: humankind went from small groups of tool - using nomads to settled agriculture, the growth of the cities, the birth of writing and mathematics, and the flourishing of the Space Age, the Information Society and the onset of human - engineered climate change.

Sorry, wasn't there for the last ice age, or even the LIA; don't know anyone who was, personally, and have no record of thermometers or other reliable measuring apparatus in place at the time; no video, no pictures, no sound, no data recording of any kind, merely the proxies in the geological and ice records, and they don't exactly give the sort of information I'd call a credible basis for concluding what exactly resulted in each ice age starting when it did.

Information about rates of SLR is most easily obtained from deglaciations, when ice ages terminated and sea level rose by up to 120 — 130 m at mean rates of about 1 m / cy [10 mm / yr] but with rapid steps bracketed by slower episodes.

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A recently developed technology called cosmogenic exposure age dating is now being used at Aberystwyth University to determine the length of time the granite boulders were exposed to the sun, giving scientists important information about when the possible expansion and retraction of the giant ice sheet took place.

I'm fascinated by the new information on sun spots that indicates a mini ice age is starting.

Ice cores have bands of light and dark areas with traces of various substances, which can be analyzed as to composition and age, yielding important information about the environmental conditions throughout time.

Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.

I have been on topic, of global cooling, and for the period in question, from the start of my first comment here, and have shown where the information which I have provided, makes references to, or uses the words ice age - call that «prediction» if you will, but lets not turn this into word semantics.

The latest information, however, indicates that Earth may actually be heading for an ice age (following these last many years of no global warming).

I believe that there was some information about the possible postponement of the next Ice Age in Dr. David Archer's «The Long Thaw,» as well.

If you google «ice age causes» you will find lots of information you can use.

Relevant information regarding its value comes from observations of past climates (including the ice age period) and from model simulations.

While International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) information had indicated much of this ice might survive the summer, the latest ice age map provided by J. Maslanik (Figure 5), shows that the tongue of old ice has mostly melted away, except for some isolated floes.

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