Sentences with phrase «of ancient carbon»

«However, ancient fossil soils — the best indicators of ancient carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere — suggest only modest levels during the Archean.»

When those stored molecules eventually return to the surface, pH can be lowered due to respiration of ancient carbon, independent of atmospheric CO2.

The Great Dying of 252 million years ago began, as it does today, with a great burning and release of ancient carbon.

That means ancient carbon, and the only known source of ancient carbon in the amounts required to explain the data is fossil fuel combustion.»

The permafrost is a vast reservoir of ancient carbon, protected from decay by microorganisms simply by its frozen state: it becomes increasingly vulnerable as the world warms, as humans burn fossil fuels and dump ever greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Samples of ancient carbon deposits from this era show a marked increase in concentrations of carbon - 12 relative to its heavier isotope carbon - 13, indicating a lot of lighter carbon might have been suddenly released at the time.

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The evidence is every ancient fossil they uncover which carbon dating will tell is millions of years old instantly proofing creationism false.

As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

Sophisticated carbon dating helps narrow in on the age of organic materials found in ancient ovens.

Researchers analyzed the levels of various trace elements in hundreds of samples of carbon - rich shales that had been deposited in oxygen - poor regions of the ocean surrounding ancient continents during the past 3.5 billion years.

The researchers started with a state - of - the - art climate model for Mars — one that assumes an ancient atmosphere composed largely of carbon dioxide (as it is today).

The burning of fossil fuels essentially reintroduces ancient carbon that is stored in the depths of the earth back into the carbon cycle.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks - led research project has provided the first modern evidence of a landscape - level permafrost carbon feedback, in which thawing permafrost releases ancient carbon as climate - warming greenhouse gases.

Donald Grayson, an anthropologist at the University of Washington, worries that dates from the site might have been contaminated by ancient carbon from the huge aquifer that sits under much of Florida.

Since the industrial revolution, human beings burning fossil fuels have boosted concentrations of atmospheric carbon more than 30 percent, disrupting the ancient cycle.

«To make this ancient star, you need no more than an Australia - sized asteroid of iron and lots of carbon.

But the ancient star shows signs of pollution with lighter elements such as carbon and magnesium, and no sign of pollution with iron.

Scientists want to learn more about these ancient stars, which have never been observed directly, because they injected the first doses of carbon, oxygen and other crucial elements into the cosmos.

Researchers have a record of atmospheric carbon dioxide stretching back millions of years thanks to ice cores from Antarctica, which contain trapped gas bubbles, snapshots of ancient air.

Taken together, the ancient unheated PAH carbon as well as the phosphides, the metallic aluminum, and the moissanite suggest that Hypatia is an assembly of unchanged pre-solar material.

They frequently have to rely on circumstantial evidence and guesswork to assign a date of manufacture for ancient silk clothing and tapestries, as traditional carbon dating requires samples so large that it visibly damages the fabrics.

Whiting also studied the carbon and oxygen compositions of the teeth of both ancient alligators and the 20 - to 25 - foot extinct crocodile Gavialosuchus americanus that once dominated the Florida coastline and died out about 5 million years ago for unknown reasons.

Many researchers are content to follow NASA's lead as it cautiously moves from «following the water» in search of likely habitable or once - habitable environments on Mars to «following the carbon» — that is, looking for chemical traces of ancient life.

The team of microbiologists and biogeochemists now discovered an archaeon — the other branch of ancient prokaryotes besides bacteria — of the order Methanosarcinales that uses iron to convert methane into carbon dioxide.

Washington state is a bit ahead of that curve because ancient carbon stores in the deep ocean are periodically churned up by local currents.

Bell and Boehnke, who have pioneered chemical and mineralogical tests to determine the condition of ancient zircons, were searching for carbon, the key component for life.

Joyce and his colleagues suggest instead that while surface waters of the ancient lake were oxygenated, deeper layers were oxygen - poor and possibly saturated with carbon dioxide or other toxic substances.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

Climate scientist Robert DeConto of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his colleagues think they have found an ancient carbon storehouse big enough to do the job.

In Earth's ancient atmosphere, scientists see the faint outlines of a carbon dioxide (CO2) roller coaster, climbing and dipping across deep time in repeated bouts of climate change.

Although climate patterns in the future may not exactly mimic those conditions, the period of warming allowed Petrenko to reveal an important piece of the climate puzzle: natural methane emissions from ancient carbon reservoirs are smaller than researchers previously thought.

Additionally, carbon isotopes that reflected the carbohydrate consumption of the ancient individuals revealed that their diets must have changed when they moved to the Empire.

Radiocarbon dating is a technique used by scientists to learn the ages of biological specimens — for example, wooden archaeological artifacts or ancient A brief discussion of radiocarbon (carbon - 14) dating and its application to the dating of the Qur «anic manuscripts.

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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.

Guyana, together with Suriname, French Guiana and sections of Venezuela and northern Brazil form the Guayana Shield, an ancient geologic formation that contains 14 percent of the world's carbon.

«If we increase the value of waste methane, that could change the whole story of carbon in the atmosphere, because we'd be collecting it and sequestering it into products... Instead of using ancient fossil carbons to make materials, you're using something that you already have.»

The idea is to supply fuel by recycling the carbon already in the air in CO2 molecules instead of adding more to the atmosphere (and greenhouse effect) by digging up or pumping more ancient deposits of coal and oil.

Locked in bubbles of ancient air trapped in glaciers is a precise record of carbon dioxide stretching back 160,000 years.

The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.

Jeff Nichols, a historian and graduate student at the University of Chicago, has done a remarkable amount of archive sleuthing and tweeted an astounding string of ancient stories on coal, carbon dioxide and climate on Twitter.

And I'd have to say that if I have to save my life by winning an argument with oil men in a bar in Midland, Tex., on this topic, I would go in with some lumps of black mudstone from the ancient rock record, I'd go in with the established figures on our present input of carbon dioxide, and I'd say which bit of this observational science do you guys quarrel with, and why?

This pledge is significant because merely draining peatlands is a major source of carbon emissions from peat oxidation as well as ancient carbon carried away as the water table drops.

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Of particular interest, changes in carbon dioxide fail to explain the greatest proportion of these ancient temperatureOf particular interest, changes in carbon dioxide fail to explain the greatest proportion of these ancient temperatureof these ancient temperatures.

Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming — fertilizing the oceans with iron to produce more carbon - eating algae — may not necessarily work as envisioned.

Level of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) in the atmosphere, as later measured in ancient ice, is about 290 ppm (parts per million).

Spilling lava over ancient coal beds, they dumped carbon into the air at a rate of around 1 - 2 billion tons per year.

Within these larger transitions, even quicker secondary oscillations showed up in various data, such as carbon - 14 studies of ancient glacier moraines and lake levels.

Subjects include unseen natural hazards, changing climate, the fall of ancient civilizations, and how future mankind might turn atmospheric carbon to stone.