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.
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.
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.
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.
At first glance a dry
lake bed in the southern California desert seems like the last place to prepare to study ice.
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.
Not exact matches
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 citie
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 citie
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 citie
in 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 its
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 its
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 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 belo
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 belo
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 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.