Sentences with phrase «lake bed suggests»

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.

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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.

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

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.

«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.

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.