Sentences with phrase «lake bed in»

Well, a century ago, Dryas pollen turned up in cores of a lake bed in Denmark above a layer of trees, at a depth now dated back to about 12,000 years.

At first glance a dry lake bed in the southern California desert seems like the last place to prepare to study ice.

Spine of the Earth was originally created on the El Mirage Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert of California in the fall of 1980.

Well, on a sandy, dried - up lake bed in Thailand, we were instructed to disable the car's traction control system before being sent out on a given route to test out the Forester's all - wheel drive system.

Large boulders like this one wander across the flat clay surface of Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, leaving long furrows but no hint of what propelled them.

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.

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In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citieIn environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the vicinity of cities.

We are privileged to farm in a way that respects the estuary and the environment, and when we do simple things, such as reducing our impact on the lake bed allowing the sea grasses to regrow, it is actually good for the oysters and the health of this beautiful estuary.

This 65 - acre French - style bed and breakfast is located in one of the most scenic areas of the Great Lakes.

A Lake County judge ruled Tuesday that most of the 230 - acre lake bed belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District, settling a 1995 suit filed by the park board in which it laid claim to about 90 percent of the lake Lake County judge ruled Tuesday that most of the 230 - acre lake bed belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District, settling a 1995 suit filed by the park board in which it laid claim to about 90 percent of the lake lake bed belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District, settling a 1995 suit filed by the park board in which it laid claim to about 90 percent of the lake Lake Park District, settling a 1995 suit filed by the park board in which it laid claim to about 90 percent of the lake lake bed.

The decision, made Wednesday by the 2nd District Appellate Court in Elgin, settles a 1995 suit filed by the park board, in which it laid claim to 90 percent of the lake bed.

In Lake County, a recent spate of infant bed - sharing deaths — eight between March 2010 and June 2011 — caught the attention of Coroner Artis Yancey, who has since sought to educate parents on the issue.

We had lakes in the bed with fuzzi bunz, due to the above - mentioned «elastic issues.»

The district filed the suit in 1995, in which it laid claim to 90 percent of the lake bed.

Crystal Lake — The park district lawsuit seeking title ownership to the lake bed stirred up stormy waters with the shoreline property owners named in the suit, but now the action appears to be rocking the Park Board itsLake — The park district lawsuit seeking title ownership to the lake bed stirred up stormy waters with the shoreline property owners named in the suit, but now the action appears to be rocking the Park Board itslake bed stirred up stormy waters with the shoreline property owners named in the suit, but now the action appears to be rocking the Park Board itself.

A dining room table became a delivery bed, a kitchen oven warmed towels for swaddling clothes and a flashlight provided the surgical light for the birth of an 8 - pound boy Tuesday night to a couple trapped in their Lake County, Ind., home by 12 - foot snowdrifts.

These additional treatment beds will give individuals from the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes or Western New York additional opportunities to participate in treatment, so that they can get their lives back on track in a safe, community - based environment.»

It also issued in 2012 a notice to the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center to close the entire adult inpatient program, and to close institutional beds at the Finger Lakes and Taconic Developmental Disabilities Service Offices.

The funding will support 50 new residential treatment beds in the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes region or Western New York.

By collecting the material deep in the lake bed, it can decrease the wave action.

And to any naysayers out there concerned about the scope of a project planted on former waste beds, along a lake that was once the most polluted in the country, Mahoney's willing to listen... to a point.

It was March 29, 1932, midway through the Third East African Archaeological Expedition, and it had rained so long and so hard that it took an hour to drive the four miles from the campsite in Kanjera, near the shore of Lake Victoria, to the Kanam West fossil beds.

Silt - bearing runoff from many activities including construction sites, forestry and farms can inhibit the penetration of sunlight through the water column restricting photosynthesis and causing blanketing of the lake or river bed which in turns damages the ecology.

Last year Ohio State University geophysicist Michael Bevis and his team were studying Global Positioning System (GPS) data from a reservoir lake in Chile when they spotted something «really strange»: an oscillation of the lake bed.

Oded Aharonson «s group at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena estimates the lake level is dropping by about a metre every terrestrial year, suggesting part of the lake bed must be very flat.

«We program in the route beforehand, and then ThunderFish Alpha autonomously scans the desired area of the lake bed using high - tech sonar equipment,» says Helge Renkewitz, a researcher at Fraunhofer AST, a branch of Fraunhofer IOSB in Ilmenau, Germany.

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.

When a field party led by John Reid of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, visited the Racetrack in 1991, a melting snowfall had left 5 centimetres of water covering the lake bed.

Okin, a wind erosion expert, tells me he got caught in one such storm just the other day on a dry lake bed.

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.

By taking sediment cores from pond and lake beds on tropical islands, scientists can determine where the band has been since A.D. 800 and where it may move in the future.

Today, microbial mats only occupy marginal habitats, but in the Precambrian era these photosynthetic communities of microorganisms dominated the beds of seas and lakes.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

Colin Waters from the British Geological Survey, a co-author in the study, added: «We have become accustomed to living amongst plastic refuse, but it is the «unseen» contribution of plastic microbeads from cosmetics and toothpaste or the artificial fibres washed from our clothes that are increasingly accumulating on sea and lake beds and perhaps have the greatest potential for leaving a lasting legacy in the geological record.»

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.

Photographer Nick Brandt spent months on dry lake beds and dusty plains, waiting to capture images of African wildlife in what he calls their «state of being».

And in the lake bed sediments, the team will search for records of the poorly understood history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, potentially revealing how the mighty glacier has waxed and waned over time.

The 4 - square - meter area of the bone bed already excavated has yielded 10 skulls and hundreds of remains, suggesting that the creatures became concentrated in one area and then died when the lake they inhabited dried up, the researchers say.

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

Huygens did spot what looked like a lake bed near its landing site, with apparent feeder channels — riverbeds, in essence — snaking into it.

After decades with run - off from agriculture, human sewage and industrial practices, phosphorus has been stock piled at an alarming rate in our lake bed sediments.

This is because phosphorus stored in bed sediments is released back to the water column and recycled in the lake.»

In March, in their largest trial so far, they used a plastic tube 14 centimetres wide which reached from the surface of Lake Nyos to its bed, 208 metres beloIn March, in their largest trial so far, they used a plastic tube 14 centimetres wide which reached from the surface of Lake Nyos to its bed, 208 metres beloin their largest trial so far, they used a plastic tube 14 centimetres wide which reached from the surface of Lake Nyos to its bed, 208 metres below.

Sudden shifts in climate occurred at the end of the last ice age, according to American researchers studying sediments from the bed of a dry lake in New Mexico.

«If Thwaites Glacier had really jumped in response to this lake drainage, then that would have suggested that we need a more detailed model of where water is flowing at the bed,» Smith said.

In 2011 archaeologists Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University and colleagues took a wrong turn as they followed a creek bed, surveying sites around Lomekwi, near Kenya's Lake Turkana.

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

Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth's atmosphere began to contain oxygen, according to researchers from the U.S., Canada and Japan.

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.

To that end, with the permission of the National Museums of Kenya, she gave them a fragment of a 4 - million - year - old fossil from a buffalo - like animal recovered in the excavation of a bone bed at Allia Bay, on the east side of Lake Turkana.