Sentences with phrase «of ancient seabed»

Among these are the phosphate deposits of Morocco — remains of an ancient seabed, laid down 66 million years ago.

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Marine fossils are found in mountains when ancient seabeds are thrust up and made into mountain ranges over many millions of years.

Route 11 Potato Chips gains fans because of the high - quality ingredients it sources for its kettle - style chips, such as unrefined sea salt from an ancient seabed in Utah.

The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

In Namibia, China and other spots around the world, researchers have collected rocks that were once ancient seabeds, and analysed the amounts of iron, molybdenum and other metals in them.

Meanwhile the MOLA data suggest that the elliptical northern hemisphere depression, some of the flattest terrain ever mapped, may have been an ancient seabed shaped by vigorous convection of the planet's mantle or tectonic plate recycling during the planet's formative stages.

It comes from an ancient seabed deep beneath Central Utah that has been protected from pollutants for millions of years.

This 35 minute flight will take you from the ancient sedimentary seabed layers of southern Arkaroola to the unruly granite and quartzite outcrops of Mount Gee, the Mawson Plateau and the Freeling Heights.

Marvel at the diversity of land formations, take note of the different vegetation that occurs on the original seabed and search for ancient fossils.

While Justice Olney is prepared to describe the determination area in the proposed draft determination as including the seabed, the exclusion of the subsoil is based on a finding that there is no close correspondence between ancient traditional activities and contemporary potential mining uses.