Sentences with phrase «on ancient oceans»

The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and eastern Texas sits on an ancient ocean floor with salt layers that form domes as the lower - density salt rises.

This produced an ancient rain of minute, rusty particles to accumulate on ancient ocean floors that is found today as bands of haematite in rock.

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Origin: An ancient ocean underneath the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia Tasting notes: Shimmery crystals that linger on the palate Try it: as a finishing seasoning for a steak or pork chop.

In some ancient eras, according to other recent work on ocean chemistry, marine animals lived in «worlds of lower oxygen,» Lyons says.

The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle had a theory about why female argonaut octopuses have a shell: he suggested that they used it as a boat to float on the ocean surface.

This week, researchers revealed that the ancient cycles of ice also left their mark on the sea floor, thousands of meters below the ocean surface.

The legendary limits of the Terra Australis of ancient and medieval cartographers, whose northerly coast was represented in art in the time of Ptolemy as extending eastward from Southern Africa toward China and inclosing the Indian Ocean, began to recede to the southward on the map of the world in the generation which produced Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan and disclosed America, the route to the Indies, and the circumnavigation of the globe.

Such an ancient date required the researchers to make a few educated guesses about the early planet, such as assuming it had a shallow ocean just 10 percent the volume of that on Earth today.

The combination of the two rock types, along with other geologic clues, could mean only one thing: They were standing on an ancient piece of the ocean floor.

And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the biology of evolution, scientists still disagree about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.

Molybdenum is now abundant because oxygen reacts with rocks to wash it into the ocean, but its source on the ancient Earth — before the atmosphere contained oxygen to weather rocks — is more mysterious.

The new findings on Arctic Ocean salinity conditions in the Eocene were calculated in part by comparing ratios of oxygen isotopes locked in ancient shark teeth found in sediments on Banks Island in the Arctic Circle and incorporating the data into a salinity model.

«Ancient marine algae provides clues of climate change impact on today's microscopic ocean organisms.»

If an ocean once lapped at the rusty shores and cliffs of Mars, it left no clear traces of an ancient coastline on the planet's surface.

The new find confirms that the ancient lavas formed at midocean ridges and found throughout deep ocean basins are by volume the largest ecosystem on Earth, scientists say.

Scheduled for launch in May, it will place a seismometer on the surface to probe the interior and perhaps find frozen remnants of that ancient ocean, or even liquid water.

Ten years ago, a team of researchers in the US1 argued that the ancient zircon crystals probably formed when tectonic plates moving around on the Earth's surface collided with each other in a similar fashion to the disruption taking place in the Andes Mountains today, where the ocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South Ameocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South AmeOcean is plunging under South America.

In 2012, Mars Express spotted a possible ancient ocean on Mars: sediments on the planet's northern plains appeared to resemble what is seen on an ocean on Earth.

In Earth's solar system, evidence of subsurface ice, ancient valley networks, and even an ancient ocean occurs on the planet Mars.

Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth's atmosphere began to contain oxygen, according to researchers from the U.S., Canada and Japan.

Whatever the case regarding the presence of ancient, frozen water oceans on Charon may be, New Horizons» observations will provide significant new insights about the prevalence of water in the Solar System and beyond.

So GISS climate modeler Michael Way took a topographic map of Venus based on findings from another mission, filled in the lowlands with an ocean of water, and ran the global climate model to simulate the climate of ancient days on Venus.

The findings may help explain how an ancient, ocean - dwelling invertebrate evolved into one of the most intelligent species on the planet.

In a new study out last month in the journal Nature, a team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden point to evidence from thousands of scratches left by ancient icebergs on the ocean floor, indicating that Pine Island's glaciers shattered in a relatively short amount of time at the end of the last ice age.

There is indeed evidence of an ancient ocean on Mars, but Waring was not the one who found it.

Go on an expedition (for example, in the Ancient Forest), and find a small lake or go to the ocean.

An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.

Examples of boutique hotels with strong personalities: • The celeb - studded, 91 - room Hotel Byblos in St. Tropez on the French Riviera • A stylishly updated former convent with only 20 rooms, the Amalfi coastline - hugging Monastero Santa Rosa • A 12 - room, 400 - year - old gem in ancient Akko, Israel, The Efendi... MORE Hotel • All 21 suites of Southern Ocean Lodge open onto the wild coast of Kangaroo Island, called «Australia's Galapagos»

Gowlland Harbour Resort occupies a coveted location on Quadra Island, where the ancient beauty of the coastal rainforest meets the untamed power of the Pacific Ocean.

From globally acclaimed luxury lodges and character - filled high - end bush camps to private wildlife conservancies and a luxury expedition cruiser, these sustainably - designed luxe accommodations are immersed in Australia's most dramatic landscapes: overlooking the ocean, in the heart of the Outback, tucked into sand dunes, amid ancient rainforests, on islands fringed by World Heritage coral reefs and surrounded by Australia's finest vineyards.

• Next door to Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary Visitor Center • Oceanfront pool • Ancient Hawaiian fish pond (rock - wall - protected beach right in front of property for calm ocean lagoon swimming) • Monsoon Indian oceanfront restaurant and bar on ground floor • Access to large private rooftop deck with amazing ocean and Haleakala views, propane barbecues, and picnic tables • Shuffle board courts and equipment • Free Parking • Walk along unobstructed white sand beach for miles

Visitors who download the free app will have access to information about sites found along the byway — think ancient HEIAU (temples), HULIHE`E PALACE, HOLUALOA ROYAL CENTER and the beach where King Kamehameha the Great perfected his surfing skills — as well as photos and data on ocean recreation activities, shoreline access, area accommodations and more.

By sailing on board an ocean cruise ship, you can travel from France's glamorous Côte d'Azur to the Greek isles with their imposing ruins and ancient cultures - and only have to unpack once.

The 18 hole Costa Teguise Golf Club is set on the foot of an ancient volcano in between lava, cactus and palm trees, and looks out to the Atlantic Ocean.

That's why Cosmos has included a drive around the Dingle Peninsula, a dramatic drive passing seaside villages, ancient monuments, and views of the Blasket Islands; a drive on the 100 - mile Ring of Kerry, with its rugged and magnificent landscapes; the spectacular 668 - foot Cliffs of Moher, where rugged cliffs drop into the ocean; a scenic drive through Snowdonia National Park in Wales; England's tranquil Lake District, recently awarded UNESCO World Heritage status; and drives through rich dairy farmland.

Visitors who download the free app will have access to information about sites found along the byway — think ancient HEIAU (temples), HULIHE`E PALACE, the HOLUALOA ROYAL CENTER and the beach where King Kamehameha the Great perfected his surfing skills — as well as photos and data on ocean recreation activities, shoreline access, area accommodations and more.

Central America is becoming a very interesting spot for tourists with its untouched tropical nature, beautiful beaches on the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, coral reefs and numerous monuments of the ancient Mayan civilization.

The villa has the ancient Anyar temple right at its entrance and the acre long ocean front grounds makes for a spectacular view that can be accessed on foot.

Many came to grief on the beaches and you can still see the skeletons of ancient ships rising forlornly out of the ocean.

Conveniently located on the waterfront of the Dickson Inlet adjacent to St Mary's chapel overlooking the ocean and views across the water to the ancient Cape Tribulation and Daintree rainforest clad mountains.

Share the beautiful sunrise, walking hand - in - hand on the nearby beach and admire the first rays reflecting off the still ocean; every shell with its own story, every grain of sand filled with ancient secrets.

Take a short stroll to the beach to taste the beautiful blend of Reef and Rainforest, spot a Cassowary on the way, or simply unwind on the veranda and enjoy the breathtaking ocean views and ancient species of the forest.

Damien Hirst's «Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable», which is on view in Venice, includes ancient works supposedly rescued from a sunken ship in the Indian Ocean

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Getting to the ancient coral, a sort of great - great - grandfather to the Great Barrier Reef, posed a challenge; it lies on and below the ocean floor.

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.

In some ancient times when CO2 levels were very high, ocean organisms with shells based on silica replaced those with shells based on calcium.

Left behind by an ancient ocean, salt deposits lie beneath the Gulf seafloor and get pressed and squeezed and bulged by the heavy sediments laying on top of them.

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.

In the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface temperature rise in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changes.