Sentences with phrase «oxygen isotope telling»
What the team discovered was an odd oxygen isotope telling them that the sulfates came from gases that had undergone atmospheric reactions en route to the valley.
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Terada told Space.com that the evidence for where the ions came from was the isotope oxygen - 16.
One way you can tell is by looking at different oxygen isotopes in the fossilized skeletons of ocean microorganisms.
Tree rings can tell tales because hurricanes produce rain with low amounts of a specific isotope — oxygen - 18.
The researchers could tell that seeds had been deposited higher up the mountain than they had been harvested by the ratio of their oxygen isotopes, which changes with altitude.
«It has anomalous oxygen isotopes that tell us this carbonate is abiotic.»
The record tells the story of the sudden release of an isotopically light source of carbon, triggering a fast warming in the deep sea of about 5 degrees C. Both the carbon isotope signal and the temperature (inferred from oxygen isotopes) then relaxed back toward their initial values in about 100,000 years.
One of those are oxygen isotopes and they are essentially a thermometer, they tell us about climate change.
They confirm the story told by the oxygen isotopes for temperature: things change very quickly.