Sentences with phrase «over eons of»

Resources that accumulated over eons of geological time are being consumed in a single human lifespan.

Green plants bloom like crazy from the CO2 - rich air / water and dissolved nutrients in the ocean accumulated over eons of nothing removing it.

The rock stacks were created when waves and winds sculpted the limestone over eons of time.

Over the eons of book publishing, agent querying became the obvious next step once an author finished a manuscript.

As a result, it looks as if cephalopods have changed very slowly over the eons of their existence.

If you can dream of a molecule, no matter how bizarre, there is a finite probability that over the eons of time and the immensity of space it has existed somewhere.»

In God's primordial nature God draws the world to greater richness of experience as each entity responds to possibilities for itself over eons of evolutionary time.

The problem is that blind, unthinking submission, submission, submission — emphasized over eons of time — does not encourage clearheaded critical thinking, without which no democracy can succeed.

Because it absorbs sunlight better, which is required for the processing of vitamin D. Genetic differences that are advantageous to the survival of the species have a higher rate of survival and reproduction, and over eons of time, through geographic isolation and genetic draft, new species arise from the old.

Not exact matches

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

This cycle repeats itself over eons to form a flat terrain of finely layered sediments.

The moon, peppered with the impacts of asteroids over the eons, should also possess dollops of platinum and other precious metals.

That trees were created already decades old, with existing tree rings demonstrating their age; that dinosaur bones were placed in the Earth already millions of years old; canyons were created with layers of sedimentary rock AS IF they had been carved out by water over eons, etc..

You need to read some of the other mythology that's been out there over the eons.

And I base it upon the experience of so many people over the eons.

Lots and lots of people over the eons have died for mistaken beliefs.

That there is not only chaos, that in fact extremely complex patterns of order have emerged and sustained themselves over eons, points to the fact that the possibilities are not ordered only in terms of immediate relevance but ordered also so that there are established limits that ensure some correlation among the many decisions that jointly make up the settled world.

The really amazing thing to consider is that people have gotten cancer and other deadly diseases since the dawn of time and this has not shaken people's faith over the eons.

For example, to bring Genesis 1 into conformity with more scientific theories viewing creation as a developmental - evolutionary process over vast eons of time, the word «day» was arbitrarily interpreted to mean just that, eons of time!

Watch eons pass before your eyes over a cup of coffee!

Over eons, pieces of mitochondrial DNA have naturally inserted into eukaryotic genomes; at birth, for example, humans have between 755 and 1,155 germline mitochondrial DNA inserts that have been passed on through generations.

If scientists can collect and analyze samples of the terrestrial oxygen embedded in lunar soil, it could provide insights into how Earth's atmosphere has evolved over the eons.

The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking — a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.

Intense thermal stresses open up fractures in rocks; over the eons, the mechanical breakdown from daily heating and cooling can reduce boulders to piles of rubble.

This force can cause asteroids to drift widely over time, making it difficult to identify families of fragments leftover after asteroid collisions eons ago.

Such a radiation bath would have vaporized most of Mercury's crust, and over the eons the solar wind would have blown the remnants back out into the solar system.

Over the eons, layer after sedimentary layer of coccoliths created such landmarks as the White Cliffs of Dover.

But before thinking about applying pesticides, gardeners can design (or re-design) their gardens to make the most of native plants that have evolved over eons to thrive in local conditions without synthetic aid or lots of water.

Pore spaces that shelter subsurface microbes areconstricted to the vanishing point in metamorphic rocks buried over eons byfurther sedimentation, volcanic eruptions, or massive folding of Earth's crust.And dense crystalline material formed by melting — basic igneous rock — offerslittle housing or dining.

Over the eons, wind and water have carved this landscape into a maze of stunning red sandstone arches and spires.

The black holes in each of these binaries will, over eons, emit gravitational radiation, lose orbital energy and spiral inward, ultimately merging into a larger black hole like the event LIGO observed.

Planetary scientists hope that analysis of Phobos's regolith will shed light on the nature of the satellite's deep interior because of the turnover between the surface and the interior over the eons.

But rather than a monotonously uniform surface homogenized by impact cratering over the eons, the first up - close look at the asteroid reveals a full palette of mineral «colors» (mapped here in false color reflecting the wide range of rock compositions).

Geologists at Stanford settled a long - simmering dispute over the age of the Sierra Nevada range by studying gravel that was soaked with rainwater eons ago.

Supermassive black holes in the cores of galaxies are thought to fatten slowly over eons, so finding such a heavyweight so early in the history of the universe is «really pushing it,» he says.

Whizzing asteroids and comets have battered Earth and all the other solid bodies of our solar system over the eons, but the ethereal rings of the giant planets seemed immune.

Mars has lost most of its atmosphere to space over the eons.

Many fossils have been discovered, which is strong evidence of an earlier time when the Earth's continents were much different from today, many of them connecting and then disconnecting over eons.

The southern reservoir itself may have been in place for hundreds of millions of years, or it may come and go as part of a cyclical process over the eons.

Sandblasted by interstellar dust gains and irradiated over eons, long - period comets from the Oort Cloud are not exactly pristine relics from the birth of the Solar System (more).

Eons, Inc., the Boston, MA - based company that incubates and launches digital products targeting adults over 40, has announced the launch of Meetcha in Greater Boston, the first market in its national roll - out.

And it is true, since he has owned many of his positions for over 20 years, which is eons in the investing world.

I adopted a Pembroke Corgi and love the little devil, not so much the eons of hairs all over the place (even after vacuuming).

The confluence of these two river forces over eons eroded the red sandstone of the Blyde River Canyon into Bourke's Luck Potholes which now shimmers full of well - wishers tokens.

PC gamers looking to get their game on, on the go, may be interested to hear that over in the States Origin PC has announced the arrival of the EON 17 - S - a machine it describes as: «The Highest Mobile Processor Clock Speed in the World».

Over the eons travelers have spanned these worlds, including a band of rogue dark elves who set themselves up in The Stygian Abyss.

Designed by Katie Paterson over the course of three years, Hollow contains of more than 10,000 pieces of wood species found all around the world, dating back to eons before our humanly presence.

We are evolved from this magnificent planet, from the balance of its ecosystems developed over eons.

Stravinsky's «Rites of Spring» Certain passages in this piece occasionally cause me to have involuntary visualizations of primitive life forms evolving over the eons.

There are of course other causes for other changes that have occurred, including suspected asteroid impacts, changes in volcanism over the eons which can lead to the buildup or reduction of greenhouse gases over long time scales, etc..