Sentences with phrase «prehistoric oceans»

Road salt is basically sodium chloride — much like table salt — and comes from deposits leftover after prehistoric oceans evaporated, with huge mines in Ohio, Michigan, New York, Kansas, and Louisiana.

leftover after prehistoric oceans evaporated, with huge mines in Ohio, Michigan, New York, Kansas, and Louisiana.

Both are single - celled, and both include many species with beautiful pearly shells that fossilize nicely, making them a favorite target of researchers studying the prehistoric oceans.

ANCIENT flying fish could make waves in our picture of prehistoric oceans.

Seeing the geologic remnants of the prehistoric ocean that once covered the region got me curious about the gargantuan water recovery effort that makes a desert megalopolis like Las Vegas possible, so I made my last stop the Clark County Wetlands Park Nature Preserve, just south of Frenchman.

We've been doing this since we were fish in an infinite prehistoric ocean.

North Atlantic Ocean to ancient global warming Jump in prehistoric ocean temperatures from greenhouse gases provides perspective for global warming studies

Not exact matches

Other things to see besides Kona, the volcano craters with bubbling lava flows into the Pacific Ocean are an amazing sight and old lava tubes are fun to explore with Eco systems that seem prehistoric, many open to the public, one is over 22 miles long (bring lots of batteries and extra strong Kona Coffee brew).

The prehistoric bird Pelagornis sandersi, with its 24 - foot wingspan — more than twice the wingspan of the albatross — was an unparalleled ocean soarer.

Pterosaur relatives from two continents suggests the prehistoric creatures moved between North America and England earlier in the Cretaceous — despite progressive widening of the North Atlantic Ocean during that time.

Pterosaur relatives from two continents suggests the prehistoric creatures moved between North America and England earlier in the Cretaceous — despite progressive widening of the North Atlantic Ocean during that time, says SMU paleontologist Timothy S. Myers.

Sunken lands... Easter Island — the living and solitary witness of a submerged prehistoric continent in the midst of the Pacific Ocean.

A 75 - foot - long prehistoric shark attacks a deep - sea submersible necessitating a rescue operation at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Playa Las Flores is a dramatic, natural cove, hemmed in by severe topography and dense tropical flora, a playful black sand beach bordering a cauldron of whitewater and waves detonating in the background, a throwback in time to a prehistoric vision of Central America where the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean meet the charcoal sands of ancient volcanic outflows.

Fossilized prehistoric whale ear bones salvaged from the sea, various butterflies, butterfly antennae made from stretched and pulled audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan's «Desolation Row,» concrete, ocean water, pigments, coral, brass, steel, and Plexiglas.

The intense prehistoric hurricanes were fueled in part by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean during the ancient period investigated than have been the norm off the U.S. East Coast over the last few hundred years, according to the study.

Fossils of Prehistoric sharks found in Idaho and Utah, meaning this area was part of the ocean (coming in through Washington).

«Arctic Oil & Gas cites recent scientific evidence that huge, floating mats of azolla - a prehistoric fern believed to have covered much of the Arctic Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 million years ago - decomposed soon after the age of the dinosaurs and exist today as «vast hydrocarbon resources» trapped in layers of rock below the polar ice cap.»