Sentences with phrase «of ancient soil»

By sequencing whatever DNA emerges (called eDNA) from even a thimbleful of ancient soil, researchers are reconstructing ancient ecosystems as far back as 700,000 years ago with astonishing clarity.

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They discovered several artifacts from what appears to be an ancient village, including carved wooden tools and bits of charcoal, in a thin horizontal layer of soil, called paleosol.

The ancient city of Smyrna, located on the site of today's Izmir in Turkey, the gateway to Asia and stepping - stone to Europe, is sacred soil because of what happened there one Sunday, around 2:00 in the afternoon, in February of the year 155.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

Ancient churches, through centuries of intimate relations with the cultures and aspirations of their people, have proved the powerful witnessing character of this rooting of the churches in the national soil.

Philosophy grows out of a mythopoeic soil, the naive realism of the ancient person for whom truth and being are identical.

Soil and conditions are typical of AVAs with alluvial ancient riverbed cobbled clay.

Probiotics, especially the soil - based ones (the kind we'd be exposed to if we worked outside, got our hands dirty, and generally lived a human existence closer to that of our ancient ancestors), really seem to mesh well with resistant starch.

With this compelling demonstration of using ancient soil samples as proxies for regional climate in Asia, Caves now plans to extend his investigations elsewhere on the globe.

The researchers were studying ancient soil composition in an exposed Siberian riverbank in 1995 when they discovered the first of 70 fossilized Ice Age squirrel burrows, some of which stored up to 800,000 seeds and fruits.

Among the best places to find Martian microfossils would likely be at the sites of mineralizing springs, ancient evaporite deposits, and soil hardpans.

The surviving fragments from these impactors would have littered the ancient surface of the Moon, slowly becoming mixed with native soil and rock.

With the exception of the fertile river valleys along which agriculture began, civilizations generally lasted 800 to 2,000 years, and geoarchaeological studies have now shown a connection between soil erosion and the decline of many ancient cultures.

Each balmy summer brings a swarm of volunteers, many wearing identical yellow T - shirts, who strip away soil and vegetation from the hillside while throngs of tourists hover at the edges, eager for a glimpse of what is said to lie beneath the dirt: the world's oldest and largest pyramids, more vast and ancient than those in Egypt, built by a mysterious and highly advanced civilization that has been long forgotten — until now.

A spacecraft has uncovered in lunar soil some traces of Earth's ancient atmosphere that were key to the development of complex life

The slopes where huge swaths of soil have been cleared away now resemble the stone - paved terraces of a Latin American pyramid, but that look, says archaeologist Brian Stewart of the University of Cambridge, may be the result of this recent dig, not the work of an ancient civilization.

Curiosity's onboard laboratory, the Sample Analysis at Mars, heated up several samples of Martian soil and found nitric oxide, suggesting that ancient Mars had the basic ingredients to support life.

Genetic studies suggest that liverworts — humble, stumpy plants related to mosses, which now commonly grow on damp soils — are the most ancient group of plants alive today.

The lander was armed with a robot arm to burrow into the soil, a laser to analyse the atmosphere and oodles of other high - tech gadgets to analyse the past and present Martian climate and help unravel the planet's ancient history.

The ancient soil (or paleosol) came from the Singhbhum Craton of Odisha, and was named the «Keonjhar Paleosol» after the nearest local town.

The ancient inhabitants of Amazonia knew how to keep fragile soils fertile — and may have hit upon a way to combat present - day climate change.

Ancient soils like these provide evidence for low atmospheric oxygen levels through much of Earth's history.

He hopes to test samples of martian soil for ancient ribosomal RNA gene sequences that are conserved in all of Earth's known life forms.

At roughly the same time (and for eons thereafter), oxidized iron began to appear in ancient soils and bands of iron were deposited on the seafloor, a product of reactions with oxygen in the seawater.

Various salt compounds found deep in the soil of New Mexico's desert may be the key to understanding how crops were cultivated in ancient Chaco Canyon — despite the backdrop of what seems an otherwise arid and desolate landscape, according to a University of Cincinnati study.

In this case, the researchers combined records of ancient lake levels, location and extent of glaciation, variations in the composition of stalagmites in caves, and evidence for changes in vegetation and subsurface soil deposits associated with water table depth.

For example, at an ancestral Pueblo settlement in Blue J, N.M, the researchers were able to map detailed architectural plans of a dozen ancient house compounds — a discovery enabled by the site's optimal conditions, the soil matrix, low density ground cover, and the environmental conditions at the time of the aerial thermography.

Curiosity's next task is to determine whether other conditions on ancient Mars, like the chemistry of the soil and air, were also favorable to the development of microbial life.

Who knew that the ancient Chinese had their own set of ancient elements — not the Greeks» air, earth, water and fire, but rather wood, fire, water, soil and metal?

The invention of agriculture some 10,000 years ago disrupted these ancient soil - building processes.

The rusted soil that gives Mars its distinctive red color has long been evidence of ancient oxygen on Mars.

As the D14L protein is also involved in plants developmental responses to light Paszkowski talks of a «gut feeling» that — with this ancient protein responding to light, atmosphere (through smoke detection) and soil environment (through fungal symbiosis)-- it could have been a developmental crossroads vital to plants» evolutionary leap out of the oceans.

This ancient symbiosis with soil fungi is thought to be how plants survived on land millions of years before they evolved roots.

When Spirit analyzed a patch of Martian soil that was very rich in silica, it provided some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now.

These items include simple things like soil, bones of oni (demons), damaged weapons, plants, ancient coins, a variety of fangs, and all sorts of other things.

The geography of the Hudson Valley is immensely rich: The terrain features sandstone, red beds, granite cliffs, dense forests and charming lakes, as well as highly fertile soil for farming, such as in the Black Dirt Region created from an ancient glacial lake, and a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna.

Obviously, without the hard work of maintaining the bricks including the ancient irrigation system, the top soil would have washed down the hillsides into the rivers.

The island of Ortigia smells like the sea and the intense heat of summer carries with it a scent of soil, of volcanic ashes and hot ancient bricks.

Known as the Garden Island, Kauai's greenery has taken root in the rich, ancient ash - laden soils of the landscape.

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Now scientists have pinpointed a new reason to be concerned about ancient soils coming out of the freezer for the first time in millennia: mercury.

By Barry Brown Canadian researchers studying the ArcticÂ's ancient permafrost have discovered 700,000 - year - old ice wedges buried in the soil that have survived earlier periods of global warming, adding complexity to predictions about the impact of contemporary climate change.

The ancient Hebrews may not have seen a lot of soil salinisation caused by unsustainable irrigation practices.

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

We can determine the past climate of the Earth by mapping the distribution of ancient coals, desert deposits, tropical soils, salt deposits, glacial material, as well as the distribution of plants and animals that are sensitive to climate, such as alligators, palm trees & mangrove swamps.

In 1992, a team from the University of New Mexico reported that ancient soils showed extremely high levels of carbon dioxide 440 million years ago, an age of primitive sea life before the advent of land plants and animals.

The coastal islands off the west of Ireland are known for ancient soil - building, where beach sand and seaweed were transported — sometimes miles — to allow agriculture in barren rocky zones.

«This porous pot is an adaptation of an ancient technique used by desert farmers for thousands of years which sits inside the planter slowly releases water as the soil dries up for even and consistent watering.»

The same is true of the Fertile Crescent (which was, at one point, actually fertile), the Indus Valley, and everywhere else where ancient civilizations once rose and then collapsed as a result of local climate changes, poor soil management, overpopulation, or what have you.