Sentences with phrase «into ancient deposits»

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The Avery Island salt dome is one of five along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, formed when an ancient sea bed evaporated, depositing pure salt which erupted in large chunks and pushed the ground into a hill.

According to research published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, the chance find of a humanly - worked quartzite flake, in ancient deposits of the river Gediz, in western Turkey, provides a major new insight into when and how early humans dispersed out of Africa and Asia.

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

The ancient flood deposited an enormous delta around Portland, Oregon, backing up flow into the Willamette Valley.

And so I'm hypnotized by the ecology of the Ancient Forest, the first region World deposits you into after its table - setting intro.