Sentences with phrase «in mud cores»

Analysis of pollen in mud cores from the bed of a lake near the Andean fortress city of Ollantaytambo, Peru, reveals that, there at least, the agricultural revolution happened very quickly, some 2700 years ago.

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While the fight raged relentlessly on «Abandoned Properties», mostly mud houses built in the 1930s and 1940s, the «core» North moved in and harvested the oil rewards.

About 10 feet from the seafloor, a trigger core hits bottom and releases the main core, which drops the remainder of the way by gravity and buries itself in the mud.

After four days of coring — interrupted at one point by a blizzard — the team has 400 pounds of mud in 45 meters of tubing to ship to a Minnesota lab, where the next chapter in the mystery unfolds.

When Norwegian researchers brought up a mud core from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in 2010, they were orchestrating a family reunion.

For 2 months in 2013, the JOIDES Resolution, the ship for the International Ocean Discovery Program, drilled into the ocean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then dated.

In 1964, Paul Colinvaux began his life's work — trying to understand the ice - age climate of the Amazon through mud cores and the pollen found within.

Mud cores pulled from marshes in the city show that the sea level is already rising faster there than at any time in the past 1,500 years, according to research published in the Holocene Journal in January.

Mud cores show that sea level rise is happening in the region faster than at any other time over the past 1,500 years.

When they took a sediment core from a lake originally created as part of a moat in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, they found centuries» worth of dirt, refuse and pollution particles, with the earliest mud layer dating to 1649.

Although Turner was intelligent and highly curious, his formidable intellect is contrasted in «Mr. Turner» with what Spall calls his «simian, beast - like» core, as if he had only just crawled out of the cold mud of the Thames.

Large changes in climate are recorded in ice cores, ocean mud and over the last two centuries, instrumental records.

In kid - friendly language, the authors incorporate the work of nearly forty - five scientists into easily - understood reads, ranging from Dr. Camille Parmesan's information on the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, to Dr. Lloyd Keigwin, who studies ancient ocean mud cores.

Attractive photographs of the natural world, working scientists, easy to read graphs, and kids in action frame the many short essays, which examine a range of topics from CO2 capture in the rainforest to mud cores taken from the bottom of the ocean.