Sentences with phrase «lake bed»

I could not resist switching off the traction control and tossing the vehicle around at high speeds on the dry lake bed.

This ancient lake bed contains huge deposits of dead microorganisms that are loaded with phosphorus.

It comes from an ancient, dry African lake bed.

In considering the impact from Irene and other modern storms, it's important to note remarkable research, published in 2002, that shows through studies of flood - scoured sediment in lake beds in Vermont and other Northeastern states that what seems phenomenally intense today is a pale shadow of what can happen in the region.

Another aspect that caught popular attention was the «toxic blobs» (expanses of lake bed covered by various combinations of solvents, wood preservatives, coal tar, and metals) found in Lake Superior, the Saint Clair River, and other areas of the Great Lakes region.

On Earth, masses of microscopic algae form large, layered structures known as stromato - lites, which survive as fossils on lake beds, and the putative Martian algae might have done the same thing, said Jack Farmer, one of McKay's colleagues.

An Illinois appellate court has upheld a ruling that most of the 230 - acre lake bed of Crystal Lake belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District.

One could dig up soil from lake beds or peat deposits, dissolve away in acids everything but the sturdy pollen, and after some hours at a microscope know what kinds of flowers, grasses or trees had lived in the neighborhood at the time the layer of lake - bed or peat was formed.

As an example, by drilling deep down into lake beds, researchers obtain sediment cores that can be examined for ancient pollen, seeds and microorganisms.

Coring old lake beds and examining the types of pollen trapped in sediment layers led to the discovery of the Younger Dryas early in the twentieth century.

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The ecosystem collapsed, the desiccated lake bed is now laced with pesticides spread by dust storms, and drinking water is polluted.

The researchers are compiling a list of promising Martian lake beds to be photographed from spacecraft, said Farmer.

He also currently leads Drum circles here in Las Vegas on the desert, dry lake bed which have attracted over 500 people.

Two more McHenry County judges have recused themselves from hearing the case of a lawsuit to settle the ownership of the Crystal Lake lake bed.

In typical Zelda fashion, Link's quest to free Hyrule from the Twilight realm's moody veil lead you through a variety of dangerous locations, including fiery mountains, deep lake beds, gloomy alternate dimensions, and ancient prisons.

Providing the deepestdrilling samples the biologists had seen, the hole bottoms out in ashale deposit, the remains of a long - buried lake bed.

Seeking respite from clogged UK roads, we find solace in the freedom and isolation of California's El Mirage lake bed

They announced 2.2 million cubic yards of polluted lake bed had been removed.

What causes boulders to glide hundreds of metres across a desert lake bed?

Quagga mussels (purple), which thrive in deeper waters, now cover vast regions of lake bed as well.

That the fossil was found in what was once an ancient lake bed suggests that this particular rodent may have made an unfortunate mistake — it may accidentally have landed on the lake and drowned.

We would just roast out here all day in the 110 - degree desert heat, staring across the expanse of dried - up lake bed without seeing any sign of the «dust devils» (video)-- mini-tornadoes — that the scientists and arrays of instruments stood ready to record.

Anecdotal evidence suggested that the fish use these to walk along lake beds.

# 98 Rocks of Death Valley To commune with the mysterious boulders of Death Valley National Park, which seem to move on their own, hop in a four - wheel drive and cruise over to Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed about three miles long and two miles wide.

We need to drill down into these former lake beds to get the vegetation records, look at the archaeology, and see what people were doing there.

Since desiccation mudcracks form only where wet sediment is exposed to air, their position closer to the center of the ancient lake bed rather than the edge also suggests that lake levels rose and fell dramatically over time.

Located in Republic, WA, Stonerose offers educational and fossil collecting opportunities from a world famous Eocene lake beds.

A team from Louisiana State University studied thousands of years worth of lake bed evidence and discovered that, over the past 3,400 years, a dozen Category 4 or higher hurricanes hit the area — yet most of them occurred 1,000 years or more ago [source: Young].

Washington figures that this same thickness of stone has been blasted off most of the Bodélé lake bed over the past several thousand years.

Writer - director Leslie McCleave offers no explanation beyond juxtaposing sour lake beds and radioactive vats with the tension between the former lovers.

We juke right just before Ensenada, following Highway 3 until we come to an unmarked entrance for Laguna Diablo, a dry lake bed northwest of San Felipe.

Stand on the parched, dusty surface of El Mirage, a dry lake bed north of Los Angeles that covers almost 76,000 acres, and as the sun dips behind the mountains to the west and the landscape adopts an eerie silence, it's just you and your shadow, stretching dozens of metres towards the east behind you.

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While the paper does not extend to the medieval maximum, from charcoal in lake bed studies it documents increased biomass burning and deforestation during agricultural and population expansion in the Neotropics from 2500 to 500 years BP, which would correspond with atmospheric carbon loading and global warming 1100 to 650 years BP.

US researchers report in the journal Nature that they collected fossil pollens from 642 ponds and lake beds across Europe and North America, to provide a record of local temperature shifts in the last 11,700 years, to conclude that — without global warming as a consequence of profligate human use of fossil fuels — the world ought to be in a cool phase.

Even swifter changes could show up in the clay varves derived from the layers in the mud of lake beds laid down each year by the spring runoff.

Footprints of mammoths, dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by researchers in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon.

CRYSTAL LAKE — An Illinois appellate court has upheld a ruling that most of the 230 - acre lake bed of Crystal Lake belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District.

The flat plates of rock that Osmanagich and a number of his experts — including an Egyptian geologist — claim were handmade at least 12,000 years ago are actually the natural remains of a 7 - million - year - old lake bed, the dissenting geologists say.

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The ecosystem has collapsed, the desiccated lake bed is laced with pesticides that are spread by dust storms, and drinking water is polluted.

If so, the dried - out Martian lake beds may contain the fossilised remains of algae.

The intrepid robotic explorer successfully completed its primary scientific objective when it discovered strong evidence early on in its mission that a place called Yellowknife Bay near its landing site, constitutes an ancient dried - out lake bed which was once filled with drinkable liquid water billions of years ago and could have sustained life — if any were present.

And so I felt a sense of occasion as I drove the 2016 Mercedes - AMG GT S down the entrance road from the brow of the hill overlooking the track and into the dry lake bed where the circuit was built.

The fossil was unearthed from an ancient lake bed in central China's Hubei Province, near the course of the modern Yangtze River.

The polygonal blocks may be the result of contraction processes similar to those that create the cracked mud in dry lake beds on Earth.