Sentences with phrase «of modern contamination»

The Redmond salt deposit begins about 30 feet below the surface, covered by a layer of bentonite clay, which has protected it from erosion and from the possibility of modern contamination.

Not exact matches

Many other modern interpreters of marriage have made the same mistake, and so have many people in American churches, who are tempted to join with Coontz and insist that couples get married for reasons of love alone, Economic, kinship and network issues and even the desire to have children are sometimes seen as contaminations of the purity of marital love.

However, it has been encouraged to be patient in its pursuit of the initiative by the fact that successive Romanian governments have indicated that they are happy to accept «its 19th century colonial operations, compared to -LSB-...] modern gold mines» and are willing to tolerate the concomitant risks of contamination and environmental damage, deemed «alarming» by Victor Bostinaru, a member of the European Parliament.

For Neandertal genomics to come into its own, however, Pääbo, Rubin, and others must demonstrate that their sequences are real and not a mosaic of errors due to degradation that occurs as DNA ages, sequencing mistakes, or contamination from modern humans who have handled the fossils, says genomicist Stephan Schuster of Pennsylvania State University in State College.

The researchers performed a number of tests to eliminate the possibility of contamination from modern wheat, including trying to sequence DNA from the chemical solutions it used in the experiments, but no plant sequences were detected.

The scientists screened for the highest quality samples and then checked for any sign of contamination with modern DNA.

Without such data it is impossible to rule out the possibility that the ancient Australian sequences result from modern human contamination of the bone during handling over the years, complicated by DNA damage.

Unfortunately, as modern manufacturing techniques, contamination concerns, and the pursuit of cheaper products are brought out into the light of day, an alternative for chewing treats was needed.

He claims that you can't just use the modern trees to estimating the growth curve because of the «temperature» contamination.

In some of the cases, the theorized relationship between the sediments and temperature was actually reversed by the modern contamination.

then consider just how lucky (for lack of a Better term) us denialists were that the original author (s) were skeptical enough to actually note some of the problems (ie recent modern contamination) with their series!

You've stretched most of the way down to a conclusion, what's to stop you making a plain statement along the lines that «on the face of the best evidence we have to date, Mann 2008's use of the Tiljander proxies was wrong on at least 2 counts: first they can not be adequately calibrated due to modern period contamination, and second because even if we allow the calibration at least two of the series were used in the opposite orientation to the most probable physical interpretation.»

Our modern food system, which has enabled virtually unbridled population growth, is also culpable in decreased biodiversity, loss of topsoil, the depletion of global stocks of fish, the contamination of groundwater, and a host of other negative environmental effects, such as increased carbon emissions, the gross misuse of antibiotics, and the health implications of vast quantities of cheap, virtually nutrition-less calories.