Sentences with phrase «new geological time»

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A new study by a Canadian Museum of Nature scientist helps answer a long - standing question in palaeontology — how numerous species of large, plant - eating dinosaurs could co-exist successfully over geological time.

«The ability to routinely monitor calving events is a new approach,» said Bruce Molnia, research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who has written extensively on Alaska's glaciers and has documented their change over time.

This new technology has been applied for the first time to rocks and will yield new insights about our streams on Earth in the geological past.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

Paleontologists are already using the new results to reexamine the spread of plants and animals across the continents over geological time.

It's time to stop pretending otherwise, to stop pretending that we haven't already entered the Anthropocene, a new geological age marked by massive species loss (already achieved) and climate change (in progress).

We are witnessing a time when the human impact on the earth system is growing exponentially, spawning the proposed naming of a new geological era, where the earth system is under the influence of the human race: the Anthropocene, of «the Age of Man» (and Woman).

The international working group, which includes geologists Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters, from the University of Leicester's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment and archaeologist Matt Edgeworth has, since 2009, been analysing the case for formalisation of the Anthropocene, a potential new epoch of geological time dominated by overwhelming human impact on the Earth.

Other theories have suggested that geological forces such as mountain building have, at different times in the planet's history, introduced large amounts of new material to the Earth's surface, and weathering of that material has drawn CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Mama June is seeing someone new, but there's a big problem the guy just got out of prison after serving time for molesting one of June's Reading geological sections - an interactive guide.

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

Extraction creates new landforms, substances and residues, making visible hidden geological strata across vast time periods.

* Josh Willis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory * Sophie Nowicki, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center * Mike Watkins, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory * Virginia Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey * Andrew Revkin, Pace University & New York Times Dot Earth blogger

This week in the journal Nature, Csatho writes a «News and Views» analysis that comments on the latest research in this area: A new study in Nature by Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Niels J. Korsgaard, Kurt H. Kjær and colleagues, who used aerial photographs, remote - sensing observations and geological evidence to estimate the Greenland Ice Sheet's mass loss during three time periods since the start of the 20th century: 1900 - 83, 1983 to 2003 and 2003 - 10.

So far - reaching is the impact of modern humans that esteemed palaeoclimatologist Wally Broecker has suggested that we have not entered a new geological epoch, a relatively minor event on the geologic time scale, but a new era — the Anthropozoic — on a par in Earth history with the development of multicellular life.

The new epoch, called the Anthropocene — meaning new man — would be the first period of geological time shaped by the action of a single species.

We are witnessing a time when the human impact on the earth system is growing exponentially, spawning the proposed naming of a new geological era, where the earth system is under the influence of the human race: the Anthropocene, of «the Age of Man» (and Woman).

The thin layer of topsoil that covers the earth's land surface was formed over long stretches of geological time as new soil formation exceeded the natural rate of erosion.

Focusing on the well - known «Cambrian Explosion,» Meyer argued that evolutionary theory could not account for the appearance of new organismal forms in a relatively short period of geological time.

In January 2008, a joint study between Pennsylvania State University and State University of New York at Fredonia professors Terry Engelder, Geoscience professor at Penn State, and Gary G. Lash increased estimates as much as 250 times over the previous estimate for the Marcellus shale by the U.S. Geological Survey.

This soil, typically 6 inches or so deep, was formed over long stretches of geological time as new soil formation exceeded the natural rate of erosion.

This time, the problem is with a species of bird that is staying put in the winter months instead of migrating south.A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey published in Arctic reveals the Pacific brant, a small sea goose, is now wintering in sub-Arctic areas.

This has been a very succesful paradigm, but has led to some old school geologist having a hard time accepting that a new force like humans can have any significant geological impact over short time.