Sentences with phrase «of wood formation»

On the other hand, there are many > hundreds, if not thousands, of publications by dendrochronologists > implicitly claiming that they do understand the biology of wood formation, > as they have used their data to imagine when past regimes of water, > temperature, pollutants, CO2, soil nutrients, and so forth existed.

Researchers in the US, China and Taiwan have developed a new systems biology model that mimics the process of wood formation, allowing scientists to predict the effects of switching on and off the 21 (at least) pathway genes involved in producing lignin, a primary component of wood.

Not exact matches

Even once they establish communication with Golborne and their would - be rescuers and have food and supplies (from clean clothes to iPods) dropped down, they are far from out of the woods, with various nations» submitting machinery that is untested at navigating such a deep and unstable rock formation.

Famous for its sandstone formations that change as the sun waxes and wanes, the Golden Gate National Park is awash with gullies, wooded ravines and grasslands, its sandstone rocks once home to the San who have left their paintings in the numerous caves of the area.

In many of his sculptures Tzannis literally depicts these elements by using raw concrete and wood, in formations that one would find in construction sites.

The reliefs in his first show at Derek Eller, made of thin laser - cut pieces of wood laminate arranged on - edge in dense, wavelike formations, might make you think of topographical maps, classic Op Art, or very complicated data visualizations.

Blasco uses photography to simulate the continuum of the formations through multiple vantage points; the viewer experiences a walk through the woods and along the river.

In his poems, Andre uses words as modular units arranged in sequential formations, in ways that evoke the bricks, blocks of wood, and sheets of metal that he employed in his seminal sculptural practice.

A Carl Andre at Sperone Westwater arranged in formations of one through ten tiles (with another wood sculpture by the artist in the foreground)

Dark shadows in the woods and the formation of clouds on the horizon hint at Nature's destructive powers.

A mid-Holocene high stand is something that's been debated for quite a while in my neck of the woods as it would say a lot about barrier island and tidal marsh formation and migration.

I believe that the formation of peat deposits is very well understood and involves the dead wood falling into an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment, (eg stagnant water) so that the general equation C+O 2 — > CO2 can not take place.

> > I would add that it is the exceptionally rare dendrochronologist who has > ever shown any inclination to understand the fundamental biology of wood > formation, either as regulated intrinsically or influenced by extrinsic > factors.

The reaction to tilting in trees is formation of «compression wood» on the underside of the stem in softwood species («tension wood» on the upper side for hardwoods).

That points to vegetation as cause of the CO2 sink and δ13C increase as the formation of new leaves and wood uses CO2 and preferentially 12CO2: