Sentences with phrase «modern levels»

Their research helps explain why the «great oxidation event», which introduced oxygen into the atmosphere around 2.4 billion years ago, did not generate modern levels of oxygen.

Of course, the historical methane emissions were still small in comparison with modern levels.

Furthermore, a leather jacket like this can take a skirt or dress to a much more modern level.

It was only around the 1950s that the number of stations started to reach modern levels.

What might be more reasonable estimates of how much power countries really need to satisfy the real demand at modern levels?

Global sea level was 125 metres (410 feet) below modern levels, because of the long - term net transfer of water from the oceans to the ice sheets.

Given the importance of oxygen for animals, researchers suspected that a sudden increase in the gas to near - modern levels in the ocean could have spurred the Cambrian explosion.

And it is this feedback that may explain a troubling uncertainty about the Canfield Ocean and this time interval in general — exactly how oxygen in the biosphere remained at only a fraction of modern levels for so long after the GOE.

According to Lyons, the solution may be that oxygen levels rose to perhaps 2 % or 3 % of modern levels around 800 million years ago.

[10] Earlier still, a 200 - million year period of intermittent, widespread glaciation extending close to the equator (Snowball Earth) appears to have been ended suddenly, about 550 million years ago, by a colossal volcanic outgassing which raised the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere abruptly to 12 percent, about 350 times modern levels, causing extreme greenhouse conditions and carbonate deposition as limestone at the rate of about 1 mm per day.

There's something indefinably vintage about the experience, but as the miles slip underneath you the Morgan reveals a very modern level of grip.

«It is, in a way, an approach that goes back to Aristotle, but it accesses the most modern levels of computing and computational science.»

Developed by Headcannon, PagodaWest and fanboy - turned - developer Christian Whitehead, the game remixes your old favorites with modern level design and a ton of throwbacks.

Modern level designers must also understand the relationship of art design to a competitive experience: the form of a CS level should match the function of that level, such that there is no point at which level art exists only for art's sake, or is detrimental to gameplay.

It is thought that some hunters arrived in Alaska about 15,000 years ago during that abrupt warming episode known as the Bølling - Allerød, where the Northern Hemisphere suddenly warmed up to almost modern levels (and in only a few decades, too).

«Studies have shown that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contributed significantly to this sea level rise above modern levels,» said Anders Carlson, an Oregon State University glacial geologist and paleoclimatologist, and co-author on the study.

Their relative MWP - modern level in their reconstruction does not appear to be robust to the presence / absence of these two foxtail sites.

With Vengeance, we are going back to the roots of Modern First Person Shooters and bringing those onto a more modern level!

Vinnels was right when he mentioned re-creating long - lost thrills with modern levels of grip, composure, and raw performance.

[65] Earlier still, a 200 - million year period of intermittent, widespread glaciation extending close to the equator (Snowball Earth) appears to have been ended suddenly, about 550 Ma, by a colossal volcanic outgassing that raised the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere abruptly to 12 %, about 350 times modern levels, causing extreme greenhouse conditions and carbonate deposition as limestone at the rate of about 1 mm per day.

Kartika Chandra Hotel Jakarta offers a very modern level of accommodation within this area where you will find luxury and exuberance at every turn.

Which whilst allowing for exceptional foot - hold also has enough volume to allow for modern levels of cushioning to be incorporated within the boot thus enabling both greater instant comfort and all day performance.

In fact, disparity remains relatively low throughout the Cambrian, with modern levels of disparity only attained after the early Ordovician radiation.

We find that ENSO variance was close to the modern level in the early Holocene and severely damped ~ 4 - 5 ka.

Researchers from the University of Southampton and the Australian National University report that sea - level rise since the industrial revolution has been fast by natural standards and — at current rates — may reach 80 cm above the modern level by 2100 and 2.5 metres by 2200.

References [1] Earth's air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels.

«The big ice sheets from the last Ice Age had melted, sea levels had risen to modern levels, and key ocean - atmosphere processes, such as the El Niño / Southern Oscillation, were established.

Sherry's shimmery gold pumps take this look to a modern level & finishing your look off with the ever so chic red lip is so sophisticated & glamorous.

But you have to be really mindful of what's ahead as the skinny front tyres don't have much grip to help slow you down and they run wide with alarming ease if you've just stepped out of something with modern levels of grip.

The new generation adds state - of - the - art technology, modern levels of safety, quality and reliability to traditional MINI values, such as optimum interior space within compact exterior dimensions.

While the stock C3 IRS was plenty capable for its day, modern levels of grip can make it go kaput in a hurry.

The style of the building is very modern and fits in well with the area and inside there is a modern level of convenience and décor which is not without the soul of the Indonesian multicultural roots of which the people of Jakarta are very proud.

It's easy to see that Lionhead leveraged the power of the Xbox 360 to amplify the visual aspects of Fable Anniversary to a more modern level.

Reconstructions indicate that during the Pliocene there were prolonged (~ 200,000 years) warm intervals, when spring and summer sea surface temperatures were between 2 and 6 oC above modern levels, with a general background theme of warmer - than - present temperatures.

The cores show that modern levels of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide levels are the highest they have ever been.

It shows a dotted line indicating the long steady upward climb in temperatures from the last ice age, from 20,000 years ago to about 11,000 years ago, when it notes that «temperatures reach modern levels.»

From depths of 300 metres below the landlocked basin, drillers brought to the surface a core that contained 30 metres of thick, crystalline salt: evidence that 120,000 years ago, and again about 10,000 years ago, rainfall had been only about one fifth of modern levels.

The notable warmth manifested itself in a melting arctic (not to modern levels) as discussed here.