Sentences with phrase «radioactive elements trapped»

Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream - colored «veins» in New Mexican rock, geologists have peered back in time more than 400,000 years to illuminate a record of earthquakes along the Loma Blanca fault in the Rio Grande rift.

That water is saltier than seawater and may contain naturally occurring arsenic and radioactive elements trapped inside rock formations deep underground.

Not exact matches

Williams looked at the radioactive elements uranium and thorium trapped in these calcite crystals, using them as a kind of clock based on the rate at which uranium decays into thorium.

To probe «closed shell» effects surrounding elements with 32 neutrons, a team at TRIUMF produced exotic, radioactive forms of titanium and weighed them with the ultra-precise mass spectrometers at TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science (TITAN) facility.