Sentences with word «lakebed»

The monkey - infested Forest Temple, lava - filled Goron Mine, and the waterlogged Lakebed Temple gave new life to the fire / water / forest themed dungeons we'd seen in previous games.
The fine layers of sedimentary rocks the rover detected the mineral on, however, showed evidence that they may have been part of lakebed deposits.
On nights in May and September 2014, a Northrop Grumman - led team — including Steven Warwick, Cash's graduate student Anthony Harness and Keith Patterson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory — conducted tests in a dry lakebed in Nevada.
The paper created a Holocene - length record of extreme precipitation, as derived from lakebed sediments across the Northeast.
Microbes within these small pools, and nestled in lakebed sediments buried miles beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, could harbor the ability to seriously alter the global carbon cycle, as well as the climate.
These drastic reductions in lake ice, caused by changes in winter climate, are the primary reason that shallow lakebed temperatures are warming and the permafrost below them is thawing.
California's recent 5 - year drought was brutal: Houseboats sat on lakebeds, groundwater supplies dwindled, and thousands of fish literally baked to death.
The Bodélé Depression, an enormous ancient lakebed in the southern Sahara desert, is the greatest single source of dust in the world.
Some scientists scramble up equatorial peaks to measure melting glaciers; others scour dry African lakebeds for sediment that reads like a talking science book.
Among the Mann08 proxies are characterizations of the varved lakebed sediments of Lake Korttajarvi in southern Finland, described by Mia Tiljander et al. (Boreas, 2003).
VIP parking in the paved lakebed area Grandstand seating (Turn 4) Commemorative Ducati gift Souvenir program Participation in the Ducati track walk The opportunity to ride your motorcycle on the track during the Ducati parade lap (Friday, July 17)
When you congregate 68,000 people in a dried up lakebed with no cell service or wireless, you can rest assured that sunrise and sunset become highly celebrated performances.
Curiosity's inspection of a Martian lakebed reveals multiple environments where microbes could have thrived more than 3 billion years ago
To better correlate climate and human evolution, in 2013 researchers cored lakebeds close to key fossil sites.
She says that dust storms in Salt Lake City have typically blown in from distant lakebeds like the Bonneville Salt Flats, about 170 kilometers away.
The storied Corkscrew turn that stands at the summit of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca heralds a precipitous 300 - foot drop to the dry lakebed below.
Putnam and his team then traveled to the easternmost part of the desert to an enormous dry lakebed called Lop Nor.
for Bryan Stotts, District Ranger This is the shoreline of a glacial lakebed.
Water - carved valleys and lakebeds leave little doubt that water once flowed on the surface.
Death Valley National Park is home to a natural wonder that's baffled scientists for decades: large rocks that mysteriously trudge across a barren lakebed, leaving trails in their wake.
Nearly 500 years after forming in their parent plant, lotus seeds from a Chinese lakebed have sprouted seedlings of their own, researchers say.
For Mars, this meant a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere with what little water remained trapped in frozen lakebed glaciers buried under oxidized iron soil, or in seasonal floes of brine mixed with trace amounts of water.
Last year, researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison studied fossil pollen and spores of a dung fungus found in sediment cores drilled from a North American lakebed and established that the decline in megafauna populations preceded the change in vegetation.
Digital terrain mapping and mineralogical analysis of the features surrounding the deposit indicate that this one - time lakebed is no older than 3.6 billion years old, well after the time period when Mars is thought to have been warm enough to sustain large amounts of surface water planet - wide.
A rupture there could devastate the capital, which is built on a drained lakebed that amplifies seismic waves.
The picture that emerged Monday of climate change's potential role in condemning California to drought was as murky as muddy water in a nearly parched lakebed.
Research by planetary scientists at Brown University finds that periodic melting of ice sheets on a cold early Mars would have created enough water to carve the ancient valleys and lakebeds seen on the planet today.
The drive through through the dry lakebed seemed endless, but before long, the Trona Pinnacles began to reveal themselves over the horizon.
The Japanese carmaker said it chose the Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan as the location for the attempt for its level and dry lakebed surface and soil which is soft enough to leave a deep impression to be captured by camera drones high above.
All four dungeon items are found in Treasure Chests that span the entire Lakebed Temple.
Begun at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's artist - in - residence program in Wendover, Utah, Lamson finished the project in a dry lakebed west of Barstow, California.
The extreme age of this clonal colony of huon pines in Tasmania was discovered by carbon - dating ancient pollen found at the bottom of a nearby lakebed.
Lake Urmia is a hypersaline lake, and its desiccation will increase the frequency of salt storms generated from the exposed lakebed.
The team then compared these findings to the New York - New Jersey cores, which penetrated old lakebeds and soils that hold exquisitely preserved signs of alternating wet and dry periods during what was believed to be the same time.
As the lake shrinks, wildlife habitat is disappearing and airborne dust from the exposed, dried lakebed threatens the health of the two million people in the surrounding area, including Salt Lake City, according to Wurtsbaugh and his co-authors.
As of writing these early impressions, I'm just about to start the third dungeon — Lakebed Temple.
The researchers used sensors to measure oxygen levels and lakebed temperatures, and found that dead zones are frequently moving as a result of internal waves in the lake.
Well before an asteroid struck the planet some 66 million years ago, Earth was already in turmoil, a record from an ancient lakebed in northeastern China suggests.
Ranging from the magnesium levels in microscopic seashells pulled from ocean sediment cores to pollen counts in layers of muck from lakebeds, the proxies delivered thousands of temperature readings over the period.
For hours on end, they gaze out on endless waves of withered, yellow - green creosote brush lapping up against sere mountain slopes, broken up here and there by low - lying dry lakebeds called playas.
We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.
As many as 70,000 people from around the world now flock to a dry lakebed 100 miles (161 kilometers) east of Reno every August for what has become a weeklong celebration.
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