Sentences with phrase «of ocean mud»

Earth scientist Aradhna Tripati of the University of California, Los Angeles's Department of Earth and Space Sciences and her colleagues extracted a record of past atmospheric concentrations of CO2 stretching back 20 million years from the shells of tiny creatures known as foraminifera buried in a column of ocean mud and rock.

Digging through metres of ocean mud from depths of 3,800 metres, the team studied the dissolution of fossil plankton shells that was closely linked to the chemical signature of different water masses.

Not exact matches

Six inches of rain fell in parts of the grounds on the festival's first day, turning pavement into small oceans and grassy fields into mud pits.

When the newly multiplied bacteria died, they fell to the floor of those ocean shallows, stacking up layer by layer to decay and enrich the mud with phosphorus.

Hans Røy expected few surprises from the chunk of reddish mud his team had just hauled from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Bierman and four colleagues — from UVM, Boston College, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Imperial College London — studied deep cores of ocean - bottom mud containing bits of bedrock that eroded off of the east side of Greenland.

The model also showed that some asteroids would be muddy all the way through, while others would develop cores of larger grains, with a great mud ocean on top of them.

When Norwegian researchers brought up a mud core from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in 2010, they were orchestrating a family reunion.

Not the least of the challenges is that marine hydrate deposits are located in ocean mud up to a kilometer below the seafloor.

Boetius and her colleagues have found the consortium in 20 or so other places around the world — everywhere they have looked, including a mud volcano in the Arctic Ocean, and at cold seeps and hydrate mounds in the Gulf of Mexico.

For 2 months in 2013, the JOIDES Resolution, the ship for the International Ocean Discovery Program, drilled into the ocean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then dOcean Discovery Program, drilled into the ocean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then docean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then dated.

In the 1980s, he and his colleague Nancy Maciolek of Battelle Ocean Sciences in Massachusetts used a simple device called a box corer to collect undisturbed square - foot samples of seafloor mud.

At 40 stations in the Southern Ocean, dragging a sled with a net through more than three acres of mud, Brandt found 674 species of isopod.

Carbon in the form of rotted plants is stored in coal, the mud of oceans and lakes, and soil, but the rotted - plant carbon in permanently frozen ground is both abundant and easily released once carbon - laden permafrost has thawed.

They live in all oceans of the world from the equator to polar latitudes, and occupy a wide range of habitats from coral and rocky reefs, seagrass and algal beds, to sand and mud soft substrates.

Quaternary scientists can use micro-organisms preserved in marine muds and onshore in lakes [25 - 27] to reconstruct past temperatures, ocean currents, rates of environmental change [28] and previous ice shelf collapses [29 - 31].

It often forms from mud, sand, or clay gathered at the bottom of an ocean, lake, or river.

Topoisomerase VI is found in Archaea, single - celled prokaryotes that tend to live in extreme environments like the boiling mud pots at Yellowstone National Park or gas vents at the bottom of the ocean.

Donnelly led a team of researchers who pinpointed the hurricane peaks after examining 2,000 years worth of storm - thrown sand, which washed from the ocean into a Massachusetts salt pond, settling as layers of sandy sediment that was sandwiched between layers of ever - accumulating mud.

Pigs aren't usually considered the cuddliest of creatures, but when they're swimming in the ocean — as opposed to splashing in the mud — they're downright adorable.

In case you want a change from your fantastic lake view at Lilly Pillys, you can drop in for a slice of mud cake at the Edge Cafe in Montville where the view leads all the way from the hinterland to the pacific ocean.

When it dies, the organic part of the algae decomposes and the calcium carbonate portion falls to the ocean floor to become part of the sand and mud.

They sieve through the mud on the bottom of the ocean floor of the Arctic with their baleen.

Benefit from the therapeutic power of the Atlantic Ocean, its climate, marine products like algae, seaweed and alluvial mud and enhance your health and well - being.

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

Ocean floor mud reveals secrets of past European climateSamples of sediment taken from the ocean floor of the North Atlantic Ocean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 yOcean floor mud reveals secrets of past European climateSamples of sediment taken from the ocean floor of the North Atlantic Ocean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 yocean floor of the North Atlantic Ocean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 yOcean have given researchers an unprecedented insight into the reasons why Europe's climate has changed over the past 3000 years.

The study compared a 5,000 - year record of strong storms etched in lagoon mud on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques with data on ocean temperatures and climate and storm patterns.

Whitings occur when the cyanobacteria fix atmospheric CO2 through the formation of CaCO3 on their cell surfaces which leads to precipitation to the ocean floor and subsequent entombment in mud.

Why, in the sediment of the northern Atlantic Ocean, are there occasional layers of sand, interrupting the blanket of ultra-fine-grained mud?

These clues include the earlier spring arrivals of migrating birds, earlier blooming of wildflowers and Washington DC's cherry trees, melting glaciers and icecaps, micro-fossils from cores of mud from the ocean floor, and bubbles of ancient air retrieved from cores of glacial ice.

In kid - friendly language, the authors incorporate the work of nearly forty - five scientists into easily - understood reads, ranging from Dr. Camille Parmesan's information on the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, to Dr. Lloyd Keigwin, who studies ancient ocean mud cores.

Attractive photographs of the natural world, working scientists, easy to read graphs, and kids in action frame the many short essays, which examine a range of topics from CO2 capture in the rainforest to mud cores taken from the bottom of the ocean.

Studies range from documenting bloom dates of trees and flowers to extracting mud cores from the ocean floor.

There's a great story there, the story of how we've wrestled information out of the records that have been left in the ice, or in ocean mud, or in tree rings, of how the system has changed in the past and how we worked out why these things have changed in the past.