Sentences with phrase «new rock layers»

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«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

The new evidence comes from an 860 - meter - thick layer of rock in Utah known as the Kaiparowits Formation, which dates to between 76.1 million and 74 million years ago.

After spending decades stuffed into a Depression - era library, the Natural History Museum of Utah has a new home: an expansive, copper - clad building in Salt Lake City designed to evoke the many layers of the state's famously complex rock formations:

SLIP «N SLIDE A layer of slippery, partially melted rock (red) may separate the Pacific tectonic plate from the underlying mantle, reducing the amount of force required to shift the massive plate, new seismic research suggests.

Wastewater created during oil and gas production and disposed of by deep injection into underlying rock layers is the probable cause for a surge in earthquakes in southern Kansas since 2013, a new report in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America concludes.

«The bacteria probably filtered in withgroundwater,» Onstott says.They took up residence in rock pores, andimpermeable sediment layers formed over them, blocking new migrationand the flow of nutrients.

UNSW Australia researchers have used new water - tracing technology in the Sydney Basin for the first time to determine how groundwater moves in the different layers of rock below the surface.

Based on his studies of exposed rock faces scattered around New Jersey, Van Houten believed he saw the 25,700 - year wobble cycle imprinted in the Newark layers.

Researchers analyzed fossilized pollen and carbon isotopes in New Mexico rock layers to reconstruct the equatorial climate between 205 million and 215 million years ago.

A new study suggests that acid rain from pollutants from burning coal can slowly but inexorably weaken certain layers of rock underlying mountain slopes to the point of failure.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

20 February 2018 — Wastewater created during oil and gas production and disposed of by deep injection into underlying rock layers is the probable cause for a surge in earthquakes in southern Kansas since 2013, a new report in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America concludes.

Together with other Triassic layers these rocks — once a seafloor — were now pushed up thousands of meters to become the dramatic high peaks of the new - born Alps.

According to the researchers, prior to settling into orderly layers, Earth's creation — around 4.5 billion years ago, just after the creation Sun and our solar system — was chaotic as bodies of rock and metal would crash, melt and form new bodies.

The eight sites featured in the new study include steep banks where, much like cutting into a cake, erosion has exposed layers of rock and ice that MRO could see from overhead.

Fall is in full swing + nothing makes this gal happier than being able to rock some layers + cozy apparel... you know, snuggly faux fur vest (or in this case a sherpa vest), suede booties (these ShoeDazzle ones are comfy + cute) + of course a killer bag (hey if you ask me, every season requires at least 1 or 2 new handbags, I mean why not right... season change = closet change... basic math haha)

I personally don't dress much differently for Thanksgiving than I would for any other family dinner in the fall, but it's still fun to debut a new sweater or rock a preppy plaid layered combo since pictures are always bound to happen.

Day 3 — Striking out for a new camp on the east side of the island, our destination will likely be remarkably different as the geology of Isla Carmen alternates between red and gray volcanic flows and peaks, with lower lying layers of white sedimentary rocks.

A wealth of unlockable characters — who all control differently and have unique abilities — injects a nice layer of strategy into the game, and the PlayStation version supports a brand new (and arguably even better) soundtrack for you to rock out to due to licensing issues with the game's previous score.

Having engaged subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music and modernist architecture, my work reproduces familiar visual signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces.

Nicholas Kersulis: Within Without the Space of a Corner will feature new work by an artist who's intrigued me since Blaffer Art Museum director and chief curator Claudia Schmuckli included his painted discs — and rocks painted with gesso so obsessively layered it begins to dwarf the stones themselves — in the 2008 Houston Area Exhibition.

In this new body of work, titled By Chance and Necessity, masterfully hand - drawn rock formations are layered with transparent fields of blue pigment applied to canvas using various methods.

For the small - scale works including Sleep Rock (2018), Benning has developed a new approach that involves slowly layering resin and composite transparencies, with painted and photographic cut - out elements.

His site - specific installation at New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001 — 2003, which consisted of miniaturized layers of rock, soil, and plants, and his recent show at Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles, which featured paintings of a postapocalyptic animal uprising, attested to the artist's misgivings about the advances of human society at the expense of nature.

According to geologist Gary Lash of the State University of New York at Fredonia, the intervening layers of rock have distinct mechanical properties that would prevent the fissures from expanding a mile or more toward the surface.

What has changed over the last decade is that new drilling technology allows long horizontal wells to be drilled, for miles along the rock layer.

This technique can be done by drilling vertically or horizontally into a rock layer, thereby releasing gas by creating new wells or expanding existing channels.