Sentences with word «palaeo»

So - called palaeo diets feature lots of meat and little in the way of grains, perhaps inspired by images such as these in Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne region of France.

Its second name, buelli, honours the exceptional illustrations of extinct whales produced by palaeo - artist Carl Buell.

The raw data from palaeo - reconstructions provides modellers with essential boundary conditions to test and analyse the accuracy of climate models and predictions.

in Wallingford says he hopes the study will encourage more palaeo reconstructions to fill the gaps in the record:

Using simulations of the last millennium to understand climate variability seen in palaeo - observations: Similar variation of Iceland - Scotland overflow strength and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.

Prof Richard Harding from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Wallingford says he hopes the study will encourage more palaeo reconstructions to fill the gaps in the record:

Older marine sediments can be dated using palaeo - magnetism.

What is palaeo ice sheet reconstruction and why do scientists spend so much time doing it?

Pat, I think this is a bit harsh and I wouldn't go as far as your statement regarding every single proxy palaeo - temperature reconstruction.

And it also gives us hope that this is the start of many such collaborative palaeo - research projects between South Africa and Argentina that could yield more such remarkable discoveries.»

The depth and volume of water in these ephemeral lakes, in turn, gives researchers an accurate measure of the minimum palaeo - ice thicknesses at the time of eruption.

Deposits left by the eruption of a subglacial volcano, or tuya, 1.8 million years ago could hold the secret to more accurate palaeo - glacial and climate models, according to new research by University of British Columbia geoscientists.

A new paper by Levermann et al. in PNAS uses the record of past rates of sea level rise from palaeo archives and numerical computer models to understand how much sea level rise we can expect per degree of warming in the future.

Flow and retreat of the Late Quaternary Pine Island - Thwaites palaeo - ice stream, West Antarctica.

Other researchers look at raised beaches [32] and palaeo lakes to record previous rates of isostatic uplift and rates of sea level rise [33, 34]; this can help constrain previous ice volumes and rates of ice loss.

«[M] y own extensive work using these [palaeo] data has led me to the conclusion that they are not well suited for reconstructing past climate extremes.

The sediments can be compared to palaeo magnetostratigraphic data, and this can be used as a proxy age determination.

I do palaeo - anthropology and am a vegan who started her journey in 1994.

The Sterkfontein Caves are a series of limestone caves 50 kilometres north west of Johannesburg that are not only the richest, but most productive palaeo - anthropological sites in the world.

Abrupt tropical cooling ~ 8,000 years ago «We drilled a sequence of exceptionally large, well - preserved Porites corals within an uplifted palaeo - reef in Alor, Indonesia, with Th - 230 ages spanning the period 8400 to 7600 calendar years before present (Figure 2).

And since both sets of rocks contained palaeo - magnetic evidence of the north and south poles» periodical reversals, researchers were able to calibrate the evidence and arrive at an accurate calendar of changing climate conditions, every 405 millennia.

Shakhova and Nicolsky believe that the development of open taliks — unfrozen regions — in the permafrost at sites where thaw lakes and river palaeo valleys were submerged is enabling methane to escape.

In a paper in Nature this week, scientists present palaeo - oceanographic evidence that deep convection of surface waters in the North Atlantic — the engine that keeps the AMOC in constant motion — began to decline as early as around 1850, probably owing to increased freshwater influx from Arctic ice that had melted at the end of a relatively cold period called the Little Ice Age (D. J. R. Thornalley et al..

In the fun - and - games world of palaeo - olympics, academics seem to vie with each other to describe the biggest, fastest and so on.

An index used in many climate change detection studies is global mean surface temperature, either as estimated from the instrumental record of the last 140 years, or from palaeo - reconstructions.

Here, using climate simulations and in situ and palaeo data, the authors present a possible link between volcanic eruptions, Great Salinity Anomalies and the Atlantic overturning circulation.

«Thus, both palaeo - anthropological and genetic evidence increasingly points to multiregional origins of anatomically modern humans in Africa, i.e. Homo sapiens did not originate in one place in Africa, but might have evolved from older forms in several places on the continent with gene flow between groups from different places,» says Carina Schlebusch.

This is the idea driving «palaeo» lifestyle fads, based on the premise that we'd be healthier if we lived more like our hunter - gatherer ancestors.

«It is an intriguing study but after examining one of these «injuries» I found it hard to rule out the possibility that this might have simply been the skull being chipped after death,» says Bruce Rothschild, a palaeo - osteopathologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

The Palaeo - Anthropological Scientific Trust (PAST), launched with donations from mining giants Anglo American and De Beers, among others, hopes to attract regular funds from big business to support a range of activities, from excavations and exploration to the training of palaeo - anthropologists and encouragement of «archaeo - tourism» to South Africa's spectacular cave sites.

Yet palaeo - anthropological research in South Africa has always been starved of cash, attracting only around 1 per cent of the international funds spent on similar work in East Africa.

Similar figurines have also been dubbed «palaeo - porn».

Aren't other interpretations of palaeo - art just as speculative as calling them pornographic?

«It used to be just a pat answer that you could not get dense settlements of people living in complex social organisations without this productive crop,» says Deborah Pearsall, a palaeo - ethnobotanist at the University of Missouri.

GOING on the palaeo diet?

«Canada's distinctive tuya volcanoes reveal glacial, palaeo - climate secrets.»

This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models.